Wafer
Wafer builds 'AI that optimizes AI' to deliver the fastest, most cost-effective inference on any hardware and maximize intelligence per watt.
At a Glance
- Chip Manufacturers
- AI Labs
- Cloud Providers
AI Tools by Wafer
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Wafer
AI Inference Optimization Platform
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Latest News
Wafer advances 'AI that optimizes AI' platform.
Wafer raises $4M seed led by Fifty Years.
Wafer joins YC S25.
Products & Services
Autonomous performance engineers for GPU kernel optimization.
High-speed LLM inference subscription starting at $40/month.
VS Code extension for optimization tools.
Market Position
Positions as the 'fastest inference in the world' by automating manual engineering work.
Leadership
Founders
Emilio Andere
Co-Founder and CEO. Former Software Engineer at Elicit and ML researcher at Argonne National Laboratory (weather prediction) and SANDLab (adversarial ML).
Steven Arellano
Co-Founder. Former Software Engineer at Two Sigma and Google. MS in Computer Science focusing on complexity theory and computer architecture.
Executive Team
Emilio Andere
Co-Founder & CEO
Former ML researcher and Elicit SWE.
Steven Arellano
Co-Founder
Former SWE at Two Sigma and Google.
Board of Directors
Founding Story
Started by Emilio Andere and Steven Arellano (met at UChicago) to solve AI inference efficiency gaps by automating performance engineering with autonomous agents.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Subscription (Wafer Pass) and enterprise usage fees.
Pricing Tiers
1,000 requests per 5 hours
Target Markets
- Chip Manufacturers
- AI Labs
- Cloud Providers
- Chip optimization
- Inference cost reduction
- Cloud deployment scaling
- NVIDIA Inception program members
- Open-source LLM users