Help us build the next generation of AI

We're building the next generation of AI: ubiquitous, interactive intelligence that runs wherever you are.

New architectures are necessary for the next generation of AI.

Our founding team met as PhDs at Stanford AI Lab, where we invented State Space Models (SSMs) — a fundamental new primitive for training large-scale foundation models that are higher quality and more efficient.

Over the past four years, we've built the theory behind SSMs and scaled it up to achieve state-of-the-art results in modalities as diverse as text, audio, video, images, and time-series data.

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Our team is building at the edge of AI, pioneering new architectures for the next generation of intelligent systems.

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Karan Goel, PhD

Karan Goel, PhD

CEO & Founder

Albert Gu, PhD

Albert Gu, PhD

Chief Scientist & Co-founder

Arjun Desai, PhD

Arjun Desai, PhD

Co-founder

Brandon Yang

Brandon Yang

Co-founder

Our values

Get the fundamentals right
Build to solve problems
Aim beyond what's possible
Be honest, with ourselves and others
Have fun with it

Backed by world-class investors

We partner with leading investors in our field. Our backers include top venture capital firms and innovative entrepreneurs with strong product expertise.

Index Ventures
Kleiner Perkins
General Catalyst
Lightspeed
Factory
Databricks