Artificial intelligence that breaks free from the datacenter
Our mathematically-pioneering approach, developed at Caltech, solves a decades-old research problem: how to dramatically compress neural networks without sacrificing their reasoning power.
We produce models that are 16x smaller, 8x faster, and 4x more energy efficient, running on phones, laptops, and edge devices instead of billion-dollar infrastructure.
We believe AI's future won't be defined by who builds the largest datacenters, but by who most efficiently converts energy into intelligence. Just as computing shifted from massive supercomputers to devices in everyone's hands, AI will follow the same path.
Our models keep sensitive data on-device, enabling privacy-first applications in healthcare, defense, and finance that were previously impossible at the edge.
This isn’t just theory. Our flagship 1-bit Bonsai 8B model proves what's possible: 8 billion parameters compressed to a 1GB footprint, delivering performance competitive with full-precision models at a fraction of the cost. It's the world's first 1-bit LLM designed for real-world deployment anywhere: from phones to laptops to robotics.
Bonsai 8B is just the beginning. Our techniques scale to larger models, offering industry-leading efficiency gains for cloud providers, enterprises, and governments managing energy and operating costs.
Meet the team
Babak Hassibi
Co-Founder & CEO
Sahin Lale
Co-Founder, Head of Research
Omead Pooladzandi
Head of Innovation & Research
Reza Sadri
Co-Founder & VP, Strategy
Shayan Ilbagian
CFO
Karim Mattar
VP, Engineering
Tushar Bansal
Dir, Product
Ion Stoica
Advisor
Buno Pati
Advisor
Julie Schoenfeld
Advisor
Join the team
Join us to turn mathematically rigorous research into models that run anywhere. If you’re excited to push the frontier of efficient intelligence and ship it into the real world, we’d love to work with you.
Join us to turn mathematically rigorous research into models that run anywhere. If you’re excited to push the frontier of efficient intelligence and ship it into the real world, we’d love to work with you.
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