Architect

Architect is an AI research and product lab for chip design. We build AI models and systems that explore, design, optimize, and verify new hardware. Our goal is to cut the ASIC design time, cost, and human labor by 20x, enabling a new wave of more efficient and ever-specialized silicon.

A Stanford spin-out, we are a team of researchers and engineers from Meta, Deepmind, Apple, and more. VC-backed, with angels including a Chief Scientist at Google, Stanford professors, and co-founders of chip companies.

Architect is a prod cohort 5.0 company. Prod is one of the most exclusive accelerator in the world with <1% acceptance rate. Previous ursor (valued at 9.9 billion dollars), Mercor (10 billion dollars), Etched (1.5 billion dollars), Decart (3.1 billion dollars), Forge, Interaction, Mach Industries, and Delve, all of which began at Prod when they were only early-stage ideas.