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Beam
ActiveAI-Native Cloud Platform
Winter 2022Founded 20215 peopleNew York, NY, USA
About
Beam is cloud platform for AI inference, sandboxes, and agents.
Founders · 2
Luke LombardiFounder
Hardware/Software Engineer - like robotics and ML. Also an experienced prep cook.
Launch
Launched on Y Combinator · Nov 2025
View launch post ↗Run GPU inference, background jobs, and sandboxes with ultrafast boot times and no vendor lock-in.
Beam is an open-source, self-hostable serverless platform for AI apps that runs GPU inference, background jobs, and sandboxes with fast container startups. It targets AI developers needing an all-in-one, vendor-neutral runtime via a simple decorator in Python or TypeScript, with features like GPU support, long-running sessions, and quick image builds.
Formerly “Slai”
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