Piris Labs
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About
Piris Labs offers a full-stack inference service that eliminates the AI data movement bottleneck. By pairing proprietary photonic hardware with a vertically optimized software stack, we minimize the "memory wall" associated with expensive GPUs. This allows us to deliver the same performance as traditional clusters at a fraction of the cost. Our technology improves effective FLOP utilization and reduces latency, finally making the unit economics of trillion-parameter models sustainable. Founded by a team of MIT physicists and Meta AI experts.
Founders · 2
Founder (YC W26), reimagining AI compute architectures | PhD EE (MIT → NASA → Stanford)
I am an AI technologist with a decade of experience scaling AI/ML products. At Meta and X, I specialized in leading tiger teams to launch high-stakes 0-to-1 initiatives. Now, I am the Co-Founder of Piris Labs. We are building high-speed photonic interconnects to solve the energy and latency constraints for AI data inference. My current focus is to iterate on our inference service and onboard customers into our platform.
Launch
We deliver low-latency, low-cost AI inference by eliminating the memory wall using full-stack optical interconnects and a purpose-built software stack.
Piris Labs announces a product stack combining proprietary optical interconnects with a specialized software stack to optimize AI inference. Targeting data-center compute for AI workloads, they claim 5x lower latency, 10x lower power per bit, and 2x lower cost per token. They seek AI product customers and chip makers/ODMs for partnerships.
Formerly “Piris Inc.”, “Pirislabs”
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