Applied Compute
We build Specific Intelligence for specific work at specific companies.
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California
- Employees
- 1–10
- Founded
- 2025
- Business Model
- B2B
- Website
- appliedcompute.ai
- Total Funding
- $82.8M
- Valuation
- $500.0MOct 2025
- Last Round
- $80.0M Series BOct 2025
About
Applied Compute builds Specific Intelligence for enterprises — unlocking the latent knowledge inside a company to train proprietary custom AI models and deploy an in-house agent workforce. Founded in 2025 by former OpenAI researchers Yash Patil (CEO, ex-Codex), Rhythm Garg (CTO, co-contributor on o1), and Linden Li (ML systems and RL infrastructure), the company embeds engineers directly within customer teams and uses reinforcement learning to train domain-specific models on customer data. Early customers include DoorDash, Cognition, and Mercor. Backed by $80 million from Benchmark, Sequoia, Lux Capital, and notable angel investors.
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