# Zettascale Computing Corporation

> Zettascale Computing Corporation (formerly Exa Laboratories) builds polymorphic XPU chips that reconfigure their own dataflow architecture to match each AI model - delivering up to 27.6x greater energy efficiency than NVIDIA H100 GPUs. Founded by a 21-year-old Swedish dropout and a Cambridge-trained engineer, this YC S24 company is shipping prototype Grasshopper cards fully manufactured in America, with commercial release planned for 2026. Their ambition: make zettascale computing sustainable and become the hardware substrate for all future AI.

- **Founded:** 2024
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, CA, USA
- **Founders:** Elias Almqvist (Co-Founder & CEO), Prithvi Raj (Co-Founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** 4-6 (two founders + two founding engineers as of 2025)
- **Products:** XPU Grasshopper (G0), XPU Pilot Program
- **Notable:** Accepted into Y Combinator S24 batch, Raised seed round from 10 investors including Climate Capital and Olive Tree Capital, Patented core XPU polymorphic dataflow technology

## Products & services

- **XPU Grasshopper (G0)** — Polymorphic reconfigurable accelerator chip that adapts its own dataflow architecture to each AI model via localization, instruction fusion, and layer fusion. Claims up to 27.6x greater energy efficiency and performance vs. NVIDIA H100 GPUs. First prototype cards fully manufactured in America; commercial XPU-G0 planned for 2026.
- **XPU Pilot Program** — Early access program launched late 2024 for customers needing significant compute for AI inference and training to test first-generation XPU chips.

## Achievements

- Accepted into Y Combinator S24 batch
- Raised seed round from 10 investors including Climate Capital and Olive Tree Capital
- Patented core XPU polymorphic dataflow technology
- Completed chip design and achieved major performance breakthrough in 2025
- First XPU Grasshopper prototype cards manufactured fully in America and shipping
- Built XPU assembly line and cluster at San Francisco HQ
- Published new generative model architecture research paper in 2025
- Rebranded from Exa Laboratories to Zettascale Computing Corporation after internal breakthroughs made original ambition insufficient
- Hired founding engineers - one turned down NVIDIA to join

## Latest updates

- **2025** — Rebranded from Exa Laboratories to Zettascale Computing Corporation
- **2025** — First XPU Grasshopper prototype cards manufactured in America and shipped to early testers
- **2025** — Signed major fab partnership (details undisclosed)
- **2025** — Published new generative model architecture research paper
- **2026** — Commercial XPU-G0 product launch planned

## Links

- Website: https://zscc.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/zettascale-computing-corp
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/thezettascale
- GitHub: https://github.com/thezettascale

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Last updated: 2026-04-27