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Lamb Labs launch: what they're building and where to launch next

What they're building

Lightning fast chips with hardcoded AI models

Batch
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Industry
B2B
Based
London, England, United Kingdom

Founders

lamb-labs.com ↗

See their funding details ↗

Lamb Labs on the record

What they shipped

  • From its YC profile: Lamb Labs is building MPUs (Model Processing Units), custom chips that hardcode LLM weights directly into the chip. Unlike GPUs, which move weights between memory and compute, MPUs keep the model on-chip, targeting up to 20,000+ tok/s and a 63× higher intelligence per watt. (source)
  • Its own site describes it as: "Lamb Labs is building MPUs (Model Processing Units). We hardcode the entire model, including its weights, into silicon. The model is the chip. This solves the memory-bandwidth bottleneck GPUs face, targeting 20,000+ tokens per second and 63× higher intelligence per watt." (source)

Who is behind it

  • Niki Kotecha, Founder/CEO: Founder at Lamb Labs. AI PhD at Imperial College London + I-X Scholar. MEng/BA in Engineering from University of Cambridge. Alan Turing Institute Global Fellowship and 160+ citations (source)
  • Thomas Lanning, Founder/CTO: Founder at Lamb Labs. Masters in Mathematical and Theoretical Physics from Oxford. Top of his class in undergraduate at Edinburgh University. (Re)discovered the Higgs-boson using ML and CERN data. (source)

Timeline

  1. 2026: founded, per its YC profile. (source)

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Where else to launch Lamb Labs

  • Product Hunt ↗
    Self-promotion allowedFree
  • Indie Hackers Forum ↗
    Self-promotion allowed
    Audience: IndieHackers; bootstrapped solo founders sharing revenue and behind-the-scenes
  • Hacker News (Show HN) ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Hacker News readers; engineers, technical founders, infra-curious people
  • Demand Curve ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • No Code Founders ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • OnlineGeniuses ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • Product Makers ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • ProductLed ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group

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