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The Networking Layer of AI

Up to 80% of the most advance AI compute chips sits idle because of slow networking. Piris Labs builds photonic based networking solutions to enable fast, scalable, and low cost AI workload execution infrastructure.
Active Founders
Ali Khalatpour
Ali Khalatpour
Founder & CEO
Founder (YC W26), reimagining AI compute architectures | PhD EE (MIT → NASA → Stanford)
Keyvan Moghadam
Keyvan Moghadam
Founder & President
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.
Company Launches
Piris Labs: We Set the Fastest Reported GLM-5.2 Inference Speed
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Piris Labs just achieved the fastest reported inference speed for the new GLM-5.2, outperforming pioneers and veterans in the space.

We finished the YC batch just a few months ago and believed it was important to maintain that same pace of execution while keeping our technical bar high. So yes, the YC advice is right: keep building.

A lean, highly passionate team with strong execution and the right long-term vision can accomplish in a short period of time what often takes much larger organizations with billions in funding and hundreds of people years to achieve.

We're well on track to build fast, scalable, and low-cost AI workload execution infrastructure with a deep focus on the data movement layer, where many of the biggest bottlenecks in performance and unit economics exist.

Read the full details here:

https://pirislabs.io/news/glm-benchmark

We welcome independent third-party benchmarking. Feel free to DM us or reach out by email.

#AIInference #MachineLearning #GLM52 #GenAI #AIInfrastructure #TechInnovation

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We deliver low-latency, low-cost AI inference by eliminating the memory wall using full-stack optical interconnects and a purpose-built software stack.
Jobs at Piris Labs
San Francisco, CA, US
$100K - $200K
0.10% - 1.00%
Any (new grads ok)
San Francisco, CA, US
$100K - $180K
0.10% - 1.00%
Any (new grads ok)
Piris Labs
Founded:2025
Batch:Winter 2026
Team Size:8
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Primary Partner:Ankit Gupta