Faraj AalaeiFounder & CEO

After building two semiconductor companies, I experienced firsthand how chip development became increasingly expensive and time-consuming. The number of semiconductor startups was declining because of those barriers. When generative AI emerged, I saw an opportunity to solve many of the problems that had challenged the industry for years.

Chip design has become incredibly complex. It can take years and hundreds of millions of dollars to bring a chip to market. Our goal is to dramatically reduce both the cost and development time by using AI to automate and accelerate the design process.

ACI stands for Artificial Chip Intelligence. While AGI focuses on general intelligence, ACI is specifically trained to design semiconductor chips. The models learn the expertise needed to create chip architectures faster and more efficiently than traditional methods.

The cost of developing chips has increased significantly. Companies often need hundreds of millions of dollars and large engineering teams to build a single product. This has reduced the number of startups entering the industry and limited innovation.

AI can perform design tasks at the speed of inference rather than relying entirely on human engineers working step by step. This allows us to collapse years of work into a much shorter timeframe while maintaining precision and quality.

Software evolves much faster than hardware. New applications can reach millions of users within weeks, but chip development often takes five years. That gap limits innovation. Faster chip design helps hardware keep pace with software advancements.

By reducing complexity and cost, we enable companies to build specialized chips tailored to specific workloads. Instead of relying on one large general-purpose chip, organizations can create hardware optimized for their unique applications.

Our customers range from semiconductor companies to cloud providers and large technology companies. Today, almost every technology company depends on chips, which creates a broad market for our platform.

The market is enormous because every technology company increasingly needs specialized hardware. As AI continues to expand, demand for custom chip solutions will only grow.

Depending on complexity, a single chip project can easily cost hundreds of millions of dollars. Some projects require thousands of engineers working together for several years before production begins.