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Wafer

S25
6 people|Active|Hiring|Website
AI
17°Moderate Pivot
Before

AI that makes AI fast

After

AI that makes AI fast

Full description — before

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.

Full description — after

Wafer builds AI agents that work as autonomous performance engineers, optimizing GPU kernels for AI inference. Our product is serverless and dedicated inference for the world’s fastest open source LLMs, achieved by Wafer's autonomous performance engineers.

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AI Coding AssistantsAI Coding Assistants
Summary

Wafer pivoted from building AI optimization tools for chip companies to offering inference services for LLMs - shifting from B2B tools to infrastructure services.

Detected today · 2026-06-03