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Zettascale

Energy efficient chips for AI

Y CombinatorSummer 2024ActiveIndustrialsArtificial IntelligenceHardwareSemiconductors

What they do

Problem

AI training and inference in data centers are constrained by high energy use, heat, and inefficient compute on existing GPUs/TPUs, driving up cost and limiting performance.

Solution

Zettascale builds reconfigurable, energy-efficient AI accelerator chips (XPUs) that optimize model dataflow for faster training/inference with lower power and cooling needs.

Who it's for

Data centers and enterprises running large-scale AI workloads, including cloud providers and AI infrastructure teams.

Founders

Elias Almqvist
Founder/CEO

Co-founder & CEO of the Zettascale Computing Corp., autodidact since age 9, with a background in Computer Science & Computer (Architecture) Engineering (BSc + MSc, dropout), mathematics, and aerospace.

Prithvi Raj
Founder

Co-founder & CTO of the Zettascale Computing Corp., with a background in generative modeling

Open roles 2

Founding Engineer - Cluster/PCB Engineer
San Francisco, CA, US · Full-time · $150K - $300K · 0.50% - 2.00%
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Founding Engineer - Lead FPGA / ASIC
San Francisco, CA, US · Full-time · $150K - $300K · 0.50% - 2.00%
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