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Liquid AI

liquid.aiadded 2026-09-02
AMD Ventures led the Series A and by Aug 2025 shipped concrete LEAP support for Ryzen/Ryzen AI — signaling a strategic distribution bet on edge inference, not just a financial check● Hiring

Worth-Joining Index · Scorecard

v2.1 ALPHA · 2026-08

Career Score

/100

Coverage

51%

Verified

17%

Stage cohort

Early

Vibe Check

🎪 community voting coming soon

Momentum
2.5/4
Efficiency
unknown
Backing
4/8
Market
7.7/11
Product
6.6/11
Upside
4/8

Latest valuation

$2.35B (Series A, 2024-12)

Series A · 2024-12

ARR

~$13.2M

Total raised

$250M (Series A, 2024-12)

as of 2024-12
基础模型高效AI架构边缘AIFounded · 2023Stage · Growth (Series A)HQ · Boston, MA

Traction · Key numbers

ARR~$13.2M (2025 est.)~ 3rd-party estimateas of 2025-01
Valuation paceSeed (Dec 2023) → Series A at $2.35B post (Dec 2024) within about a year Publicly verifiableas of 2024-12
Monetization modelLFM2 is free for individuals/companies under $10M revenue; larger firms need a paid enterprise license — trading free distribution for ecosystem share, gating revenue at the enterprise tier Publicly verifiableas of 2025-06

Funding

Total raised

$250M (Series A, 2024-12)

Rounds

2

Valuation pace

Seed

A

$250M

Series A · 2024-12 · valuation $2.35B post (Series A, 2024-12) · led by AMD Ventures

With: Automattic, OSS Capital · A steep valuation jump from seed, with clear strategic intent behind AMD's stake

S

$37.6M

Seed · 2023-12 · led by OSS Capital, PagsGroup

With: Automattic, Samsung Next, Bold Capital Partners · Joined by notable angels including Naval Ravikant and Tobias Lütke

AMD Ventures led the Series A and by Aug 2025 shipped concrete LEAP support for Ryzen/Ryzen AI — signaling a strategic distribution bet on edge inference, not just a financial check

Valuation went from seed to $2.35B in about 13 months — priced on the architecture narrative, not current revenue; the gap between $13.2M ARR and $2.35B valuation is the question the next round has to answer

22 investors and $297M raised across just two rounds suggests capital concentrated in two large priced rounds so far, without yet the multiple top-up rounds typical of scaling growth-stage companies

Founders

Ramin Hasani CEO

Former MIT CSAIL researcher, co-inventor of the liquid neural network architecture

Mathias Lechner CTO

MIT CSAIL background, focused on neural architecture and training systems

Alexander Amini CSO

MIT PhD with a background in deep learning and robotic perception research

Daniela Rus Co-founder

Director of MIT CSAIL, a well-known scholar in robotics and AI

Reality · Working here

H1B / PERMUnknown
Remote policyUnknown
Comp modelUnknown
GlassdoorUnknown — work here? Help us fill this in →
Equity liquidityUnknown
Hiring statusCareers page lists 18 open roles, concentrated in Research & Engineering (8) and Applied (4), primarily hiring in San Francisco with teams also in Boston and Tokyo Company-claimedas of 2026-09

Signals & Risks

CompetitorsMistral AICohereTogether AI
Architecture RiskLNN is a non-mainstream architecture; commercialization and tooling ecosystem still need to mature relative to the Transformer ecosystem
ValuationValuation rose from tens of millions to $2.35B within a year; future rounds will need stronger revenue/customer proof points
Strategic Investor DependencyAMD leading the Series A may create chip/hardware ties; long-term independence and partnership diversity remain to be seen

Editorial ✎

Good fit for

· Systems/inference-optimization engineers — real on-device deployment work under actual chip and memory constraints, not toy demos

· Researchers drawn to non-consensus architecture bets — the company is wagering Transformers aren't the end state, appealing if you're willing to grind on LNNs while the field ignores them

· People who value hardware partnerships — the AMD tie gives real chip-side resources and distribution, unlike a pure-software story

Not for

· Anyone wanting short-term certainty on equity value — the gap between $13.2M ARR and a $2.35B valuation means upside depends heavily on the architecture thesis playing out, not current performance

· Engineers who need a mature ecosystem and rich open-source tooling — the LNN ecosystem lags far behind Transformers, so a lot of infrastructure has to be built in-house

Ask in the interview

1. Given $13.2M ARR against a $2.35B valuation, what's the actual revenue ramp plan for the next 12-18 months, and how big is that gap in leadership's own view?

2. With AMD leading the Series A, how much room is left to court other hardware partners (Qualcomm, Arm ecosystem) without exclusivity friction?

3. Beyond the 'more efficient than Transformers' pitch, has any customer run a head-to-head production benchmark on accuracy/latency, and does it hold up to third-party reproduction?

Data changelog

Community corrections → editorial review → applied, fully on the record

2026-09-02
最近一轮领投机构 filled in as AMD Ventures

data as of 2024-12 · Source: Safar Partners

Publicly verifiable
2026-09-02
最近一轮估值 filled in as $2.35B post (Series A, 2024-12)

data as of 2024-12 · Source: AI Business Weekly

Publicly verifiable
2026-09-02
累计融资额 filled in as $250M (Series A, 2024-12)

data as of 2024-12 · Source: Safar Partners / press coverage

Publicly verifiable
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