Lemurian Labs

Lemurian Labs develops Tachyon, a software stack designed to execute AI workloads across different hardware targets and scales while matching or exceeding the performance of hand-tuned kernels. The company frames the current state of AI infrastructure as fragmented and brittle because performance-critical code must be written as hardware-specific kernels, which it characterizes as "the new assembly language" and as a shortcoming of existing compilers. Tachyon is positioned as an alternative that removes the need to write kernels, a shift the company labels "Accelerated Software" or the "post-kernel era."

The company describes three claimed benefits of Tachyon: productivity, in that developers focus on models and algorithms rather than whether code will run on the next generation of hardware; performance, derived from optimizing across the entire system rather than individual kernels, including overlapping communication with computation and scheduling that exploits parallelism not visible to kernel-based approaches; and portability, allowing a workload to run on any hardware without modification, new xPUs to be evaluated in hours rather than months, and workloads to move between clouds and instance types. Tachyon is pre-general-availability, with beta testing stated to open in Summer 2027.

Latest developments

The company announced the addition of Java pioneer Kim Polese and MIT's Saman Amarasinghe, and states that Tachyon beta testing opens Summer 2027.