Welcome, Explorer

Sciforium,
One Stop for Everything AI

At Sciforium, we’re not just building and deploying AI; we’re redefining the enitre foundations vertically, an infrastructure that makes next-generation intelligence possible.

Our Mission

Our Mission

Serving AI models today is expensive, slow, and built on shortcuts. Most providers sacrifice output quality for speed, support only a narrow range of data types, and run on infrastructure they don't own or control. Customers end up paying more, getting less, and building on foundations they can't trust.

We rebuilt AI serving infrastructure from the ground up - designed to handle any type of digital data, natively, at scale. By owning our hardware and optimizing the entire pipeline end to end, we deliver faster inference, higher quality outputs, and meaningfully lower costs than any comparable platform.

Our vision is for AI infrastructure to move at the pace of AI itself. We're building toward a world where any team, regardless of size or budget, can access the best AI capabilities across every modality without compromise. Text, image, video, audio, and data types that don't yet have a name. One platform, one API, built to last.
Our Vision

Principles
That Guide Us

We're early. The problems are real. A few principles shape how we operate every day.
01

High Ambition
We aim beyond what feels reasonable. Incremental isn’t enough, we take on problems that matter and push until they break or we do.

02

Outcome Ownership
If something isn't working, we say so. If we committed to it, we fix it. We don't pass problems up the chain or wait for permission to solve them.

03

Relentless Quality
Details matter. From infrastructure to user experience, we hold a high bar and don’t ship until it meets it. Good enough isn’t.

Backed By

Supported by Leaders
in AI and Infrastructure

We’re proud to be backed by investors who understand what it takes to build at the infrastructure layer — and who have a direct stake in seeing AI hardware advance.
Team

The Team
Behind Sciforium

Founded in 2024 and headquartered in San Francisco, we move fast and work close to the hardware, focusing on what matters most in AI: performance, reliability, and usability at scale. Our team brings experience from Google DeepMind, Microsoft, Amazon, Snowflake, Qualcomm, and more.

Hassan Akbari

Founder & CEO
Previously Infra Lead at Google DeepMind
PhD, Electrical Engineering, Columbia University

Pankaj Lakhina

VP of Engineering

Vijaya Singh

Lead AI Serving Engineer

Barrett Summerlin

Chief of Staff

Chris Persico

Account Executive

Arash Behravesh

Machine Learning Engineer

Bridget Jones

Senior Technical Recruiter

Arpana Pahuja

Principal Talent Partner

Ali Akbari

Machine Learning Engineer

Sanjay Veera

Software Engineer

Ning Yuan Li

Machine Learning Engineer

Babin Sunar

HPC & GPU Infrastructure Engineer

George Yi

Software Engineer

Krishna Arya

GPU Kernel Engineer

Join Us

Come Build With Us

We’re looking for highly independent, self-motivated, and creative people to join us. If you want to work on hard infrastructure problems that actually matter, at a company small enough that your work is visible from day one, we’d love to talk.
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Kimi K2.5
GLM 5
DeepSeek V3.2
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Stable Diffusion 3.5
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