Lemurian Labs Aims to Revolutionize AI Compute with New Chip and Software

Lemurian Labs, founded by Google, Intel and Nvidia alumni, aims to build a new chip and software to make AI workloads cheaper and more efficient.

The company wants to flip the traditional computing approach - instead of moving data to compute, move compute to data.

Lemurian claims to have solved limitations with floating point math by using a logarithmic number system on its chips.

The software part will be available in 2023, while the custom hardware will follow in subsequent years.

The startup raised a $9M seed round led by Oval Park Capital to develop its novel compute paradigm.