YC Summer 2026 (S26) founder

Jacob Peake

Founder of Standard Machines, Teaching AI to Design Chips

Company

Jacob Peake is listed as a founder of Standard Machines. We build environments and evaluations to train and evaluate models on advanced chip design.

Founder traction evidence

Public posts and activity attributed directly to this founder.

  1. X

    sharing a new long-form blog post: ai chip architectures it covers the leading chip architectures (nvidia, amd, tpus, trainium, cerebras, groq) across architecture, scaling (scale-up and scale-out), and software stacks.

    sharing a new long-form blog post: ai chip architectures it covers the leading chip architectures (nvidia, amd, tpus, trainium, cerebras, groq) across architecture, scaling (scale-up and scale-out), and software stacks. it helps build an intuition for the architectures and

  2. X

    Today, we're launching Standard Machines @stanmachines.

    Today, we're launching Standard Machines @stanmachines. We build reinforcement-learning environments for chip design. We want to push frontier model capabilities forward, and enable small teams to tape-out advanced chips in months. Read more in our launch post,

  3. X

    today’s improvements in intelligence/joule came with relatively weak co-design.

    today’s improvements in intelligence/joule came with relatively weak co-design. extreme co-design between model, harness, chip, and system will explode intelligence/joule. when the entire stack is treated as a single system to be optimized together. this is just the beginning.

  4. X

    sf is quite pretty sometimes

    sf is quite pretty sometimes

  5. X

    there’s so much more to do in ai & chip design.

    there’s so much more to do in ai & chip design. we’re still in the early days.

  6. X

    the people who win are the ones who care deeply about their work

    the people who win are the ones who care deeply about their work

  7. X

    sometimes you must go slow to go fast

    sometimes you must go slow to go fast

  8. X

    the field of computer science is so young.

    the field of computer science is so young. we are so early.