# Aitomatic

> Aitomatic builds autonomous AI agents that capture and operationalize the hard-won knowledge of veteran industrial experts - the kind of know-how that quietly walks out the door when senior engineers retire. Founded in 2021 by ex-Google and ex-Panasonic veterans, the Palo Alto company has open-sourced OpenSSA (Small Specialist Agents) as an inaugural member of the AI Alliance with IBM and Meta, and released SemiKong, the world's first open-source LLM purpose-built for the semiconductor industry.

- **Founded:** 2021
- **Headquarters:** Palo Alto, California, United States
- **Founders:** Christopher Nguyen (Co-Founder & CEO), Nanda Kishore (Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** ~27 employees
- **Products:** OpenSSA, SemiKong, Cognitive Ontology, COSTAR Cycle, Domain-Expert AI Agents (DXAs)
- **Notable:** Inaugural member of the AI Alliance with IBM and Meta (December 2023)., Released OpenSSA, an open-source framework for Small Specialist Agents., Unveiled SemiKong, the first open-source LLM for the semiconductor industry, at SEMICON West 2024.

## Products & services

- **OpenSSA** — Open-source framework for Small Specialist Agents (SSAs) - lean, domain-specific AI agents released as an inaugural contribution to the AI Alliance with IBM and Meta.
- **SemiKong** — The world's first open-source LLM purpose-built for the semiconductor industry, built on Meta's Llama 3 in partnership with Tokyo Electron and FPT Software.
- **Cognitive Ontology** — A living map of enterprise operations encoding causal relationships and domain reasoning - the substrate Aitomatic's agents reason over.
- **COSTAR Cycle** — Curate, Organize, See, Think, Act, Reflect - Aitomatic's framework for building trustworthy domain-expert AI agents.
- **Domain-Expert AI Agents (DXAs)** — Production-grade AI agents deployed inside enterprises for semiconductor, energy, maritime and industrial operations - including predictive maintenance, process optimization and diagnostics.

## Achievements

- Inaugural member of the AI Alliance with IBM and Meta (December 2023).
- Released OpenSSA, an open-source framework for Small Specialist Agents.
- Unveiled SemiKong, the first open-source LLM for the semiconductor industry, at SEMICON West 2024.
- Co-leads the Foundation Models focus area of the AI Alliance.
- Reported 95% accuracy on decisions that previously required senior engineers, with 3-week deployment timelines.

## Latest updates

- **2024-07** — Unveiled SemiKong at SEMICON West - the first open-source LLM purpose-built for the semiconductor industry.
- **2023-12** — Released OpenSSA as inaugural member of the AI Alliance with IBM and Meta.
- **2024-12** — Announced a more powerful next-generation SemiKong release planned.

## Links

- Website: https://aitomatic.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aitomatic
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/aitomatic
- GitHub: https://github.com/aitomatic
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aitomatic.1

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Last updated: 2026-06-29