# Lamb Labs

[Lamb Labs on Hacklab](https://hacklab.so/org/lamb-labs)

Startup · 2 people on Hacklab

## Links

- [Website](http://lamb-labs.com/)
- [Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/lamb-labs)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/lamb-labs/)
- [X](https://x.com/LambLabs)

## About

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## YC company profile

Lightning fast chips with hardcoded AI models

Lamb Labs is building Model Processing Units (MPUs), custom AI chips that hardcode LLM weights directly into silicon. Rather than adapting general-purpose processors to run AI models, we're rethinking how LLMs are implemented in hardware to make inference dramatically faster and more energy-efficient.

- **YC batch:** Summer 2026
- **Founded:** 2026
- **Team size:** 0
- **Location:** San Francisco
- **Country:** US
- **Status:** Active
- **Industry:** B2B
- **Stage:** Early
- **Tags:** Hardware, B2B, Semiconductors, AI
- **YC partner:** Tyler Bosmeny

## Founders

### Niki Kotecha — Founder/CEO

Founder at Lamb Labs. AI PhD at Imperial College London + I-X Scholar. MEng/BA in Engineering from University of Cambridge. Alan Turing Institute Global Fellowship and 160+ citations

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/niki-kotecha/) · [X](https://x.com/KotechaNiki)

### Thomas Lanning — Founder/CTO

Founder at Lamb Labs. Masters in Mathematical and Theoretical Physics from Oxford. Top of his class in undergraduate at Edinburgh University. (Re)discovered the Higgs-boson using ML and CERN data.

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-lanning/)

[Source: Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/lamb-labs) · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.

## Current staff

- [Niki Kotecha](https://hacklab.so/niki-kotecha) — Founder/CEO (Present)
- [Thomas Lanning](https://hacklab.so/thomas-lanning) — Founder/CTO (Present)

## Open jobs

- [Founding ASIC Engineer \(Architecture & RTL\)](https://hacklab.so/jobs/e8b1bb14-6610-5078-a269-d3a8d9c2b150) — Full\-time · On\-site · London, England, GB · £60 \- £160 GBP
- [Member of Technical Staff \(Model Quantization & Inference\)](https://hacklab.so/jobs/ab149679-f006-58a2-9385-d69aa68449d0) — Full\-time · On\-site · London, England, GB · £60 \- £160 GBP
- [Founding AI Accelerator Architect \(Research & Hardware Co\-Design\)](https://hacklab.so/jobs/2ca13f53-8685-5bfc-b49a-6a14f1d3e463) — Full\-time · On\-site · London, England, GB · £60 \- £160 GBP