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Artificial Specialized Intelligence

Winter 2025Founded 20246 peopleSan Francisco, CA, USA
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We are on a mission to build the world’s most accurate, fastest, and cheapest task-specific models for every production AI system. Most AI products, whether copilots, agents, or search systems, depend on frontier LLMs to handle every step of their pipeline. Yet, the vast majority of these steps are narrow, repeatable workloads: reranking, embedding, classification, routing, query rewriting, context compression, where frontier intelligence is overkill. Running them on general-purpose models is slow and expensive, capping what production AI can achieve. That is why we're building ZeroEntropy: to train small, task-specific models that replace frontier LLMs on these workloads, and empower developers to ship AI products that are more accurate, faster, and cheaper.

Founders · 2

Ghita Houir Alami
Ghita Houir AlamiFounder
Berkeley

cofounder & CEO @ ZeroEntropy (YC W25) - moroccan founder with 2 masters in applied maths from École Polytechnique and UC Berkeley

Nicholas Pipitone
Nicholas PipitoneFounder
Carnegie Mellon

Cofounder & CTO @ ZeroEntropy (YC W25) - My background is in theoretical mathematics and computer science. Dropped out of CMU to pursue startups. Worked on low-level C/C++/Assembly/GPU Code. CTO and/or main dev for 5 different startups. Created stat-arb algorithms and audited blockchains for bug bounties and hedge fund due diligence. Built the AI @ myko.ai, manifestapp.xyz, magibook.co

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