About
Texel is a platform that enables developers to generate hardware-accelerated APIs for running AI pipelines 10 times faster, including image and video applications. For example, developers can use the latest NVIDIA GPUs or Google TPUs without having to become hardware experts themselves.
Founders · 2
Rahul is co-founder and CEO of Texel.ai. He worked on Bitmoji at Snapchat for almost 8 years after completing a Computer Science PhD at Stanford in character animation and physics simulation. He is interested in scalable systems for computer graphics and artificial intelligence.
Eli is the Co-founder and CTO of Texel.ai. He worked at Snapchat for the last 5 years, building one of the worlds largest graphics GPU deployments. At Texel.ai he's solving the next big problems in Generative AI enabling new and exciting large scale applications.
Launch
Helping businesses make their GPU-based AI infrastructure 10x more efficient
Texel provides APIs and tooling to optimize end-to-end GPU-based AI workflows, from input to output, including media encoding/decoding and model inference, with options to host or run on-premise. It targets teams running media-heavy AI inference to reduce GPU usage and cost while enabling real-time editing and processing.
From the original launch (Mar 2023) — may be outdated.
Formerly “Aimoji (TBD)”
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