# SambaNova Systems

> SambaNova Systems is a Palo Alto AI company building purpose-built chips and a full-stack platform for fast, efficient inference on the largest open-source models, taking direct aim at Nvidia in the enterprise AI market.

- **Founded:** 2017
- **Headquarters:** Palo Alto, California, United States
- **Founders:** Rodrigo Liang (Co-founder & CEO), Kunle Olukotun (Co-founder & Chief Technologist), Christopher Ré (Co-founder)
- **Team size:** ~430
- **Products:** SN50 RDU, SambaCloud, SambaStack, SambaStudio, SambaManaged
- **Notable:** Raised more than $1.45B in total funding by 2026., Shipped multiple generations of the RDU chip (SN10, SN30, SN40L, SN50)., Selected by U.S. national labs to power frontier AI workloads.

## Products & services

- **SN50 RDU** — Latest reconfigurable dataflow unit chip, marketed as the fastest for agentic AI workloads.
- **SambaCloud** — Inference cloud serving open-source models like Llama, Qwen, DeepSeek and OpenAI-compatible APIs at high throughput.
- **SambaStack** — Full-stack on-prem AI infrastructure for enterprises and governments.
- **SambaStudio** — Software platform for deploying, fine-tuning, and managing models.
- **SambaManaged** — Turnkey managed inference service for data centers.

## Achievements

- Raised more than $1.45B in total funding by 2026.
- Shipped multiple generations of the RDU chip (SN10, SN30, SN40L, SN50).
- Selected by U.S. national labs to power frontier AI workloads.
- Claims #1 inference speed on several open-source LLMs.

## Latest updates

- **2026-02** — Announced SN50 chip, Intel collaboration, and a $350M Series E round.

## Links

- Website: https://sambanova.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sambanova
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/SambaNovaAI
- GitHub: https://github.com/sambanova
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SambaNovaAI
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/SambaNovaAI/

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Last updated: 2026-05-18