Baud

AI training chips and developer platform

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About Baud

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

    Founder & CEO

    Multi-time founder with 4 patents and 7+ years in deep learning and AI hardware. ML lead for Peloton Guide from concept to 100,000+ devices shipped. Previously founding ML engineer at Peloton and Caper (acquired by Instacart). Also a certified pilot.

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  • Eric Taylor

    Founder & Chief Hardware Architect

    Experienced ASIC Architect with over a decade of industry experience, including four tape-outs, two major IP releases, two patents, and a publication. Prior roles at NVIDIA, Freescale/NXP, Arteris IP, and Enfabrica.

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