Lamb Labs
Lightning fast chips with hardcoded AI models
YC Summer 2026Artificial IntelligenceHardwareB2BSemiconductorsAI
About Lamb Labs
Lamb Labs is building MPUs (Model Processing Units), custom chips that hardcode LLM weights directly into the chip. Unlike GPUs, which move weights between memory and compute, MPUs keep the model on-chip, targeting up to 20,000+ tok/s and a 63× higher intelligence per watt.
Founders
Niki Kotecha
Founder
Founder at Lamb Labs. Fully funded PhD scholarship (>£150k) in AI from Imperial College London. MEng/BA in Chemical Engineering from University of Cambridge.
Thomas Lanning
Founder
Founder at Lamb Labs. Masters in Mathematical and Theoretical Physics from Oxford. Top of his class in undergraduate at Edinburgh University. (Re)discovered the Higgs-boson using ML and CERN data.