Standard Kernel and a New Era of Scaling Law’s

Honored to have been an early supporter of Standard Kernel in their mission to build AI systems that design + optimize the full stack of AI infrastructure.

Their Series A, fueled by world class investors + angels, is a major milestone for an exceptionally high caliber team shaping the future of AI’s foundations.

Standard Kernel has designed a continuously-improving system that extracts peak AI performance across ever-larger and more hardware-diverse AI fleets.

They operate deep in the stack, optimizing the complex layer where models meet machines to push peak performance closer to the physical limit.

Standard Kernel’s solution unlocks a new threshold of capability around new and emerging accelerators while also streamlining the development of new model architectures.

As rapid iteration around new chip architectures and diverse workloads underpins AI’s next era, SK enables superior E2E utilization and more interactive end systems in a way that conventional human-optimization and manual intervention practically can’t – and with a self-improving system that learns directly from execution, the significance of this approach only compounds.

Anne, Chris and the team are leaders in their field - and I’m excited to continue supporting them in their quest to build a better foundation for AI and compute infrastructure in the years ahead.