# Ljubisa Bajic

> Ljubisa Bajic is a Toronto-based semiconductor engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded Tenstorrent in 2016 and later served as its CTO and president. He co-founded Taalas in 2023 with Drago Ignjatovic and Lejla Bajic to implement AI models in custom silicon. AMD announced an agreement to acquire Taalas in August 2026. His earlier career included architecture and engineering work at ATI, AMD and Nvidia.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at Taalas
- **Organizations:** Taalas, Tenstorrent, AMD, Nvidia, ATI Technologies
- **Education:** University of Toronto
- **Known for:** Co-founded Tenstorrent and led its development from a basement project to nearly 300 employees across nine locations by April 2023., Led Tenstorrent during development of Grayskull and Wormhole., Co-founded Taalas, which introduced model-specific HC1 inference silicon.

## Career timeline

- **2006** — Named with James Fry on an ATI graphics power-reduction patent application filed March 3.
- **Before 2016** — Worked in engineering and architecture at ATI, AMD and Nvidia; returned to AMD before starting Tenstorrent.
- **2016** — Co-founded Tenstorrent with Ivan Hamer and Milos Trajkovic in Toronto.
- **2020** — Presented Compute substrate for Software 2.0 with Jasmina Vasiljevic at Hot Chips.
- **2021** — Co-authored the IEEE Micro paper Compute Substrate for Software 2.0; Jim Keller joined Tenstorrent as president and CTO.
- **2022** — Spoke with Keller in Serbia around the opening of Tenstorrent’s Belgrade office and at Future Compute.
- **2023** — Exchanged executive roles with Keller, becoming CTO and president; stepped back to an advisory capacity in April; co-founded Taalas later in the year.
- **2024** — Taalas emerged publicly on March 5 with $50 million raised across two rounds.
- **2026** — Taalas unveiled HC1; AMD announced a definitive agreement to acquire Taalas on August 6, subject to closing conditions and regulatory approvals.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Tenstorrent and led its development from a basement project to nearly 300 employees across nine locations by April 2023.
- Led Tenstorrent during development of Grayskull and Wormhole.
- Co-founded Taalas, which introduced model-specific HC1 inference silicon.
- Co-authored Compute Substrate for Software 2.0 in IEEE Micro in 2021.
- Co-inventor on an ATI graphics power-management patent filed in 2006.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — AMD announced a definitive agreement to acquire Taalas. The announcement identified Bajic as Taalas co-founder and CEO and said the transaction was subject to closing conditions and regulatory approvals.
- **2026-02** — Bajic published The path to ubiquitous AI on February 19, introducing Taalas HC1 and reporting 17,000 tokens per second per user for Llama 3.1 8B, while acknowledging quality limitations from quantization.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/ljubisa-bajic-1b3608

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Last updated: 2026-10-15