Samir Menon

I’ve known @neilmovva for 20 years. Turns out learning to build from first principles at FIRST Robotics takes you pretty far. He got me through AP Physics C back then, and he pushes our team everyday to break those same laws for inference. Couldn’t be prouder to be building the future with you at @sailresearchco. If you want to learn from the best in kernels, reach out!! We’re hiring

Samir Menon @blintzbase and I are thrilled to announce Sail @sailresearchco ! We build infrastructure for long-horizon agents: inference served at unbeatable prices-per-token for open models, plus sandboxes designed to run for days, weeks, or longer. We've raised $80M, w/ our seed led by @Sequoia and series A led by @KleinerPerkins. We're using this capital to build the most efficient infrastructure for long-horizon agents. What makes agents so different? Unlike a human waiting at a keyboard (top priority: speed), agents need scale, reliability, and sustainable cost. Sail finds this efficiency everywhere in the stack: we carefully choose our chips, write custom inference engines, and run a global controller that fully utilizes every computer in our fleet. Tight integration from silicon to API lets Sail open up the cost / latency frontier to our customers - the most patient agents can now access 10x more intelligence per dollar. We're excited to be working with great companies like @parallelweb, @detaildotdev,@Jackandjillai, and @quadrillion_ai to deploy long-horizon agents with trillions of tokens. Our team is thoughtful in our engineering craft and relentlessly ambitious in our pursuit of peak performance. We previously trained at companies like NVIDIA, OpenAI, Google, and so many trading firms. Now we're ready to do the work that will define our careers, in the most compute intensive market of all time. Welcome to the era of abundant intelligence. We can't wait to build with you!

What’s messing up your tummy? Napkin Math (napkinmath.club) knows. Napkin Math is the hyper-personalized AI food journal that helps people achieve their health goals. Congrats on the launch, @jynniit, @clairen19 & @manny4c! ycombinator.com/launches/QXK-n…

The Inference Shift Agentic inference is going to be different than the inference we use today, and it will change compute infrastructure because speed won't matter when humans aren't involved. stratechery.com/2026/the-infer…