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Chris Lattner Keeps Rebuilding the Layer Everyone Else Takes for Granted
From LLVM and Swift to Mojo and Modular, Chris Lattner has spent a quarter-century removing the seams between an idea and the machine that runs it. His newest chapter puts that long campaign inside Qualcomm.
The compiler legend who wants to break AI free from a single chip
Chris Lattner built the compilers inside every iPhone and Mac. His next act, Modular, is a bet that AI shouldn't be chained to one company's chips - and Qualcomm just paid billions to own it.
Gimlet Labs, Inc.
Gimlet Labs is a San Francisco applied research company building the first multi-silicon inference cloud - software that runs AI workloads simultaneously across CPUs, GPUs, and specialized accelerators. Founded by ex-Google and ex-NVIDIA engineers behind the Pixie observability project, Gimlet ships Gimlet Cloud (serverless agent inference) and kforge (autonomous kernel generation from PyTorch). The company exited stealth in October 2025 with eight-figure revenue and raised an $80M Series A led by Menlo Ventures in March 2026.