Chennai: IIT Madras alumnus semiconductor chip design automation startup Tattvam AI has raised $1.7 million in pre-seed funding. It aims to make customised chip design faster and cheaper. It aims to reduce development costs, enable rapid iteration on chip designs, bringing what currently takes two-three years down to weeks and making it accessible to more companies, the startup said in a release.“Current AI tools, even the most advanced large language models, struggle with deep structural understanding. We are building a reasoning model that actually understands circuits, their constraints, the tradeoffs and the interdependencies,” Bragadeesh Suresh Babu, chief executive and co-founder, Tattvam AI and IIT Madras alumnus.
He previously worked with UK-based chip startup Fractile and founded the startup with Lannan Jiang, who has been developing chips at ETH Zurich. Tattvam AI plans to launch its first product in the coming months.Tattvam AI’s round led by Seedcamp, along with EWOR, Entropy Industrial Ventures, Concept Ventures, notable semiconductor angel investor Stan Boland. It claims its approach to chip design by building an AI system that understands circuit structure and autonomously solves complex design tasks. The company aims to cater to the market as the demand for custom silicon, specialised processors built and optimised for specific workloads such as AI training or AI inference.
