About
Matthew Gunton is a co-founder at Luminal AI and previously worked as an engineer at Amazon, where he developed systems that identified and resolved issues in the fulfillment network.
Matthew Gunton @matthewjgunton
LLMs are autoregressive models You type in a prompt and they give you back output tokens one at a time What differentiates one run of the LLM from the other are the attention intermediary results (and outputs) that have been calculated to your exact prompt and the output tokens https://t.co/0zjWwn3jk1

Aug 2, 2026 Β· β₯ 2
Matthew Gunton @matthewjgunton
Why is this graph so important? Interactivity curves show you a fundamental tradeoff that happens when you serve AI Tokens The more requests that you handle at once (your throughput), the slower each request appears to the user (latency) This graph shows the tradeoff that https://t.co/FT8p9ruNqs

Jul 31, 2026 Β· β₯ 11 Β· β 1
Matthew Gunton @matthewjgunton
AI needs a lot of electricity As we add more of it to the grid (and behind the meter) it's worth understanding some basics around how we measure capacity on the grid I want to go over ELCC (Effective Load Carrying Capacity) You see the grid needs to be very careful with https://t.co/EP1WwfqSLs

Jul 30, 2026 Β· β₯ 4
Founder at LuminalYC S25
Intro paths
Matthew went through Y Combinator (Summer 2025) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Jared Friedman, General Partner at Y Combinator β the partner who ran Luminal's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β
In turn, Matthew can intro founders to Luminal's investors below.
Luminal's investors Β· 3
Co-founders at Luminal
Experience
- Luminal (YC S25)Foundercurrent2025 β present
- AmazonSoftware Development Engineer2022 β 2025Austin, Texas, United States
Education
- Y Combinator2025
- Lehigh UniversityB.S. Computer Science & Business, Computer Science
- The Lawrenceville SchoolHigh School
Skills & more
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Node.jsCascading Style Sheets (CSS)JavaJavaScript- AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty β Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect β Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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