Wafer is an AI inference infrastructure company that routes and optimizes open models across NVIDIA, AMD, TPUs, and other silicon. Wafer's Twitter Score is 27 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #36,294 (top 10%) among 486,860 tracked accounts.
Wafer was founded by Emilio Andere and Steven Arellano and is part of the Y Combinator Summer 2025 batch. The company builds AI agents that function as autonomous performance engineers, optimizing GPU kernels to improve AI inference efficiency. Its core mission is to maximize intelligence per watt by applying AI to the problem of AI infrastructure itself.
Wafer offers serverless and dedicated inference for open-source large language models through an API compatible with both OpenAI and Anthropic interfaces. The company announced a $4 million seed round led by Fifty Years in April 2026, with participation from Liquid 2 Ventures. Wafer is also affiliated with NVIDIA Inception, a program supporting early-stage AI startups. Wafer has accumulated 9,146 followers as of September 2026 and 1,092 posts on the platform, and has been mentioned by 31 accounts a total of 77 times.
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The accounts that follow Wafer include 129 founders, 42 angel investors, 25 influencers and 2 VCs. Among them are Marc Andreessen, Tarun Chitra, Mario Nawfal, Tommy, mikedemarais.eth and Imran.