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Standard Machines launch: what they're building and where to launch next

What they're building

Teaching AI to Design Chips

Batch
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Industry
B2B
Based
San Francisco, CA, USA

Founders

standardmachines.com ↗

See their funding details ↗

Standard Machines on the record

What they shipped

  • From its YC profile: We build environments and evaluations to train and evaluate models on advanced chip design. (source)
  • Its own site describes it as: "Standard Machines is a research company building environments and evaluations for chip design." (source)
  • Homepage headline: "Standard Machines is a research company building environments and evaluations for advanced chip design ." (source)

Who is behind it

  • Jacob Peake, Founder/CEO: Founder at Standard Machines. Ex GPU Architect at Apple. (source)
  • Has a careers page at https://www.standardmachines.com/careers. (source)

Timeline

  1. 2026: founded, per its YC profile. (source)
  2. 2026-08-24: Launch YC post "Standard Machines. Teaching AI to Design Advanced Chips.", tagline "Standard Machines builds environments to train and evaluate models on advanced chip design tasks. We work with frontier labs to push their model capabilities.", 22 upvotes when read. (source)

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Where else to launch Standard Machines

  • 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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