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Krithik Puthalath

Founder and CEO, Zyphra

Krithik Puthalath is the founder and CEO of Zyphra, according to the company's May 2026 announcement of AMD Instinct MI355X GPU capacity on Zyphra Cloud. Zyphra describes itself as an open superintelligence research and product company with two parts: Zyphra Research, which trains open multimodal models, and Zyphra Cloud, an AI platform built on AMD hardware.12

At a glance

Current role
Founder and CEO
Company
Zyphra
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Company
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Zyphra

Puthalath leads Zyphra as founder and CEO. The company's research arm trains open multimodal models on heterogeneous compute, with a focus on long-term memory, continual learning and hardware performance, and its cloud arm offers a full-stack AI platform built on AMD hardware.12

Zyphra launched Zyphra Cloud in May 2026 with Zyphra Inference, an inference service running on AMD MI355X GPUs. A week later the company announced bare-metal MI355X capacity on the platform, with Puthalath quoted on bringing Zyphra Research's systems work into production infrastructure.31

Work and contributions

  • Zyphra Cloud Proprietary product

    As founder and CEO, announced the expansion of Zyphra Cloud from serverless inference to bare-metal AMD Instinct MI355X capacity in May 2026.13

Timeline

  1. Zyphra launched Zyphra Cloud with its AMD-first Zyphra Inference service.3
  2. Announced, as Zyphra's founder and CEO, AMD Instinct MI355X capacity on Zyphra Cloud.1

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References

3 sources · profile reviewed Oct 22, 2026 · data updated Oct 22, 2026

  1. Zyphra Announces 15 Megawatts of AMD Instinct MI355X GPU Capacity Through Zyphra CloudZyphra · Announcement · published May 11, 2026 · accessed Oct 22, 2026
  2. About — ZyphraZyphra · Official page · accessed Oct 22, 2026
  3. The Zyphra Inference Cloud: AMD-First Inference for Long-Context, Agentic WorkloadsZyphra · Announcement · published May 4, 2026 · accessed Oct 22, 2026