Wafer

About

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.

Founders

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  Emilio Andere· Founder

  prev @ argonne, uchicago sand lab, elicit. math at uchicago.

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  Steven Arellano· Founder

  prev @ two sigma, google, sei labs, and axlab. cs + econ at uchicago.

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Product launches · 2 launches

• Wafer Pass: flat-rate access to the fastest open-source LLMs ↗▲ 5Apr 30, 2026

  The fastest open-source LLMs for OpenClaw, Claude Code, and any agent harness

• 👑 Wafer - Cursor for CUDA ↗▲ 103Jul 16, 2025

  AI agent that turns your slow PyTorch into fast GPU code, automatically

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