Application YC di SF Tensor
SF Tensor ha partecipato a Y Combinator nel batch Fall 2025 come azienda B2B. Sotto: cosa fa l'azienda, chi l'ha fondata e la sua application a YC, ricostruita domanda per domanda nel form reale di YC.
- Batch YC
- Fall 2025
- Settore
- B2BInfrastructure
- Dimensione team
- 6
- Stato
- Active
- Lanciata
- 2025
Founder
Ben KoskaFounder
Luk KoskaFounder
Tom KoskaFounder
Cosa fa SF Tensor
AI researchers should be pushing the boundaries of what's possible with new architectures and training methods. Instead, they waste weeks configuring cloud infrastructure, debugging distributed systems, and optimizing their GPU code. We know because we lived it: While training our own models across thousands of GPUs earlier this year, we spent more time fighting our infrastructure than doing actual research. That's why we're building two things. First, Elastic Cloud: a managed platform that automatically finds the cheapest GPUs across all providers, handles spot instance preemption, and cuts compute costs by up to 80%. Second, automatic kernel optimization that makes training code run faster by modeling hardware topology, often beating hand-tuned implementations. The problem is that getting high performance across different hardware is genuinely hard. NVIDIA's CUDA moat exists because writing fast kernels requires deep expertise. Most teams either accept vendor lock-in or hire expensive kernel engineers. Our goal is to break the CUDA moat. The compute bottleneck is the biggest constraint on AI progress. NVIDIA can't manufacture enough GPUs, and their monopoly keeps prices astronomical. Meanwhile, AMD, Google, and Amazon are shipping capable alternative hardware that nobody uses because the software is too hard. We're breaking that moat. If we succeed, anyone will be able to train state-of-the-art models without thinking past their PyTorch code.
Application YC di SF Tensor, ricostruita
Domanda per Y Combinator
SF Tensor, batch Fall 2025. Le vere domande del form, risposte da dati pubblici.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
SF Tensor
Infrastructure for AI labs to focus on research
We're building two core products. First, Elastic Cloud, a managed platform that automatically finds the cheapest GPUs across cloud providers, handles spot instance interruptions, and cuts compute costs by up to 80%. Second, automatic kernel optimization that models hardware topology to speed up training code, often surpassing hand-tuned implementations. Our goal is to remove infrastructure friction so AI researchers can spend more time experimenting and less time on system ops.
We do not have a set company location; our team is distributed. We expect to remain remote after YC.
Because our work is mostly software infrastructure targeting global AI labs, we do not depend on location. Remote lets us access talent and collaborate with AI researchers worldwide.
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Domande Frequenti
Questa è l'application YC reale di SF Tensor?
No. Y Combinator mantiene private le application inviate. Questa è una ricostruzione: le domande del form YC reale, a cui si è risposto usando i dati pubblici di SF Tensor (note di lancio, background dei founder, descrizione del prodotto). Mostra come un'azienda come SF Tensor si presenterebbe a YC, non il testo che hanno inviato.
A quale batch YC apparteneva SF Tensor?
SF Tensor apparteneva al batch Fall 2025 di Y Combinator.
Chi ha fondato SF Tensor?
SF Tensor è stato fondato da Ben Koska, Luk Koska, Tom Koska.
Cosa fa SF Tensor?
Infrastructure for AI labs to focus on research.
Come leggo la ricostruzione completa della application?
Crea un account Round Funded gratuito. La versione completa di 26 risposte della application di SF Tensor, e di ogni altro batch YC, è in YC Insights.
