Mission:

• Be the compute platform for AGI.
• Make AI better, faster, and cheaper by building more powerful hardware.

Approach:

• We target just LLMs, whereas GPUs target all ML models.
• LLMs are different. Our hardware and software can be much simpler.
• We combine deep domain experience, a few key ideas, and a lot of careful engineering.

Team:

• Reiner Pope, CEO: helped build Google PaLM. Wrote Google's fastest inference software.
• Mike Gunter, CTO: helped build Google TPUs. Designed or architected 11 chips across six industries.
• Our team has deep experience in ASIC design, compilers, and high-performance software.

Traction:

• Strong support from prominent LLM companies.

Investors include:

• Outset Capital
• SV Angel
• Homebrew
• Rajiv Khemani: Sun, Intel, Cavium, Innovium, Auradine
• Amit Singh: Oracle, Google, Palo Alto Networks
• Leading LLM and AI researchers:
• Irwan Bello
• James Bradbury
• Aakanksha Chowdhery
• William Fedus
• David Ha
• Swyx: Latent.Space, AI.Engineer, AWS, Netlify, Temporal

We're hiring!

• Roles in hardware, software, and ML.
• See details.