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Team
11-50
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
2
+1 posted in 30 days
Momentum
13/100
hiring for its size
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
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May 29 On the Hacker News front page Real-time LLM Inference on Standard GPUs: 3k tokens/s per request · 219 points 2023 Founded
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Web presence
top 7%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
5
best: 219 points
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Overview

Kog Labs builds a co-designed inference stack for real-time AI agents on standard datacenter GPUs, spanning model architecture, inference engine, compilers and low-level GPU kernels. It develops the Laneformer 2B model and states a 30 times faster LLM inference through parallel architecture. The company is headquartered in Paris, France.

News

News Kog Labs 4 months ago
Kog Laneformer 2B: The Latency-First Model Behind Kog Inference Engine
Today Kog is releasing the weights and model code of Laneformer 2B on Hugging Face Hub, the 2.3B-parameter instruction-tuned coding model designed for high-speed decoding.Most LLM research optimizes for benchmark quality first, and inference metrics like
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News Kog Labs 5 months ago
Real-time LLM Inference on Standard Datacenter GPUs (3,000 tokens/s per request)
Today, Kog AI launches a tech preview of the Kog Inference Engine (KIE): 3,000 output tokens/s per request on 8 AMD MI300X GPUs and 2,100 on 8 NVIDIA H200 (FP16, no speculative decoding). This preview runs a 2B model, with support for large third-party Mo
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News Kog Labs 5 months ago
Delayed Tensor Parallelism for Faster Transformer Inference
DTP is a new Transformer architecture that hides communication overhead behind computation and weight streaming, enabling significantly faster batch-size-one inference on AMD and NVIDIA GPUs.
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News AMD 1 year ago
Kog Reaches 3.5 Breakthrough Inference Speed on AMD Instinct MI300X
Kog AI breaks conventions with a radical approach to inference, free from legacy constraints, to address real market pain points
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Kog Labs over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
13
Postings analysed
3
Stack modernity
72/100AI adopter
Languages
Sass
Frameworks & libraries
CUDA
Transformers
MLIR
PyTorch
AI & ML
LLM
DeepSeek
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Full Kog Labs tech stack 13 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Growth

Hiring Momentum
77/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
2
1 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
110 days
faster than 12% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
AI/ML
100% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added MLIR to stack Sep 2026
Added Triton to stack Sep 2026
Added Sass to stack Sep 2026
Added HPC to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Paris
Paris France
HQ
2 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for AI/ML
seen since Jun 2026 job postings

Jobs

≈ $57k – $123k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • PhD • Paris
Quantization
AI Agents
Transformers
LLM
CUDA
MLIR
Speculative Decoding
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≈ $57k – $122k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • PhD • Paris
Quantization
AI Agents
Transformers
LLM
Mixture of Experts
Speculative Decoding
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