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ActiveAI chips for ultra-fast training and inference
S26·Summer 2026·Industrials·San Francisco, CA, USA·Team of 3·Founded 2026
About
Novel AI hardware and developer platform, built from first principles to let companies train, fine-tune, and deploy frontier models with orders of magnitude better performance than incumbents
Founders
Sarang Zambare· FounderPreviously Sarang was at Peloton and Caper (W16) (acquired) as their founding deep learning engineer for deploying large vision models on resource constrained qualcomm chips for use in vision based fitness equipment and smart shopping carts. He has multiple patents in computer vision and has shipped AI products at scale with thousands of DAUs. Sarang has bachelors + double masters in Physics from IIT Bombay and UC Berkeley. He loves playing music and is also a certified pilot.
Change history · 16 recorded
- August 29, 2026
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- June 28, 2026
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- June 27, 2026
- Stopped hiring07:00 PM
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- Batch code updated to S2607:00 PM
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- Batch label updated to Summer 202607:00 PM
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- June 7, 2026
- Founder profile updated08:00 PM