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Wafer
ActiveAI that makes AI fast
Summer 2025Founded 20256 peopleSan Francisco, CA, USA
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Wafer builds AI agents that work as autonomous performance engineers, optimizing GPU kernels for AI inference. Our customers are chip companies and cloud providers who need their AI models running at peak performance on any type of hardware. Our founding team includes engineers from Google (Spanner, Gemini), Two Sigma, AWS, and Argonne National Lab, with NeurIPS publications in ML.
Founders · 2
Steven ArellanoFounder
prev @ two sigma, google, sei labs, and axlab. cs + econ at uchicago.
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