YC Summer 2026 (S26) founder

Eric Taylor

Founder of Baud, AI chips for ultra-fast model training and inference

Company

Eric Taylor is listed as a founder of Baud. Novel AI hardware and developer platform, built from first principles to let companies train, fine-tune, and deploy frontier models with orders of magnitude better performance than incumbents

Founder traction evidence

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  1. LinkedIn

    Building the sand to sentience pipeline

    Building the sand to sentience pipeline. Shared launch context: Baud is building a new chip for accelerated training and inference of large AI models.