SambaNova Systems is an AI infrastructure company that sells a full-stack platform for enterprise inference, centered on its custom Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit (RDU) chips, SambaRack systems, and the SambaStack software layer. The platform is built for agentic AI, model bundling, fine-tuning, and fast inference, and it highlights integrations with Intel in heterogeneous inference. It serves enterprises and points to use cases such as running open-source and frontier models, while customers include Argonne National Laboratory. SambaNova was founded in 2017 in Palo Alto, California, by co-founders Rodrigo Liang, Kunle Olukotun, and Christopher Ré; Liang is CEO and Olukotun is chief technologist, and the team page also lists Lip-Bu Tan as chairman. A 2021 Series D of about $676 million led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, with participation from several strategic investors, including Intel Capital, and the company is backed by Google-affiliated CapitalG.