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Applied Compute

AI model training, inference, and continuous improvement platform

appliedcompute.com

Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Company type: Private company
Number of employees: 50
Industry: IT Services & Consulting

Last updated October 27

Latest news about Applied Compute

In short: Applied Compute raised $350 million at a $3.25 billion valuation and launched its AC2 open-weight AI platform.

Company announcements

October 27 Applied Compute

Applied Compute reduced Clay inference costs by 47%

It trained a specialized model router for Claygent that processes hundreds of millions of queries monthly with low latency.

October 21 Applied Compute

Applied Compute releases Shift-1 to reduce coding inference costs

The new router cuts Codex spend by 55% and Claude Code spend by 24% while maintaining model intelligence on internal usage.

October 16 Applied Compute

Applied Compute highlights Beam 1.0 performance

The model achieves 501B MoE with RL post-training tripling agentic coding scores, offering day 0 support in AC2 for inference and training.

April 8 Applied Compute

Applied Compute announces $80 million financing

Funding at $1.3 billion valuation led by Kleiner Perkins brings total to $160 million. It supports Specific Intelligence agents for enterprises.

Media coverage

October 12 Yahoo! JAPAN

Founders are aged 23, 24, and 25 — Three former OpenAI researchers start a company, raising approximately $3.8 billion for enterprise-oriented open-weight AI

The three individuals became friends at Stanford University and colleagues at OpenAI; after leaving the company, they founded Applied Compute, a startup building enterprise-focused AI using open-weight models. On September 18, 2026, 15 months after its founding, the company raised $350 million, reaching a post-money valuation of $3.25 billion. ■ DeepSeek R1 sparks a wave of startups in open-weight AI...

September 2 Forbes

Ex-OpenAI Staffers Are Building A Cheaper, More Open Alternative

Just 15 months after it founding, Applied Compute is raising $350 million at a $3.25 billion...

August 11 The Information

Applied Compute in Talks to Double Valuation to $3 Billion on Open-Source Demand — The Information

Applied Compute, a year-old startup that helps companies run and customize open-source models with their own data, is discussing a new funding round that would...

July 16 Tech.eu

Applied Computing lands $20M to expand foundation AI for energy

Applied Computing has secured fresh funding to expand its AI platform for energy operations, supporting international growth, ...

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