Prime Intellect acquires Moondream, adds Moondream 3.1 and Photon to its inference stack
Prime Intellect announced it has acquired Moondream, with founders Vik Korrapati and Jay Allen joining to lead and scale inference and to accelerate multimodal work spanning vision and computer use. Moondream 3.1 is now available through Prime Inference powered by Moondream's Photon engine, and Photon plus Moondream's GPU kernel and megakernel compiler work are being integrated into Prime's stack. Clef and Clef Flash are also live through Prime Inference and OpenRouter, with Clef priced at parity with Jev and Clef Flash at half the price; existing Moondream Cloud customers will receive platform credits in the coming days.
The deal folds a small, efficient open-weight vision model and its purpose-built inference engine into a single stack, betting specialized models plus owned serving can rival generalist frontier models on cost and speed.