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Baud

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Code · Vendor site 2026-10-04

Baud Labs designs AI accelerator hardware and software that replace costly multiplications with addition-heavy representations to cut training and inference waste. The site describes an ASIC architecture plus a PyTorch-export compiler targeting bit-exact conversion for popular open models.

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Is Baud right for you?

A good fit for

Teams researching custom silicon and compilers to make frontier model training and serving more efficient.

Before you choose

Public marketing offers a login gate without published cloud pricing or general availability dates.

Hardware for efficient intelligence

Baud argues current AI stacks waste orders of magnitude of compute versus theoretical minima and builds chips plus software to close that gap.

What it can do

Features & capabilities

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CapabilityValueEvidenceChecked
Arithmetic representationHomepage explains a representation that eliminates multiplications and compresses neural networks during forward and backward passes.Facts sourced2026-10-04
PyTorch compilerSite says a compiler converts PyTorch-exportable models to Baud’s format with bit-exact results for many open architectures.Facts sourced2026-10-04
FPGA demoMarketing mentions training on an ASIC emulated in FPGA with inference above 1000 tokens per second on a single chip demo.Facts sourced2026-10-04

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What is Baud used for?

Baud Labs designs AI accelerator hardware and software that replace costly multiplications with addition-heavy representations to cut training and inference waste. The site describes an ASIC architecture plus a PyTorch-export compiler targeting bit-exact conversion for popular open models.

Does Baud have a free plan?

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How much does Baud cost?

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Can I use Baud through an API?

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Public marketing offers a login gate without published cloud pricing or general availability dates.

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