2026-06-11 –, Plenary
Ainekko’s Agentic SoC is an open, full-stack approach to AI-native silicon that treats hardware as a programmable, composable substrate for model execution rather than a fixed target. Built on a many-core RISC-V architecture with tile-based compute and memory, the platform enables automated model-to-hardware mapping, dynamic quantization, and workload-specific system composition at packaging time, eliminating the need for per-model tape-outs.
We invert the traditional stack: models define the hardware. Our approach sits between FPGA flexibility and etching models into ASIC-level efficiency, delivering high performance and practical economics while remaining fully programmable to adapt to rapidly evolving models and architectures.
Our programmable RISC-V fabric has been validated with a 1,088-core tape-out and is designed to scale to 4,000+ cores. On top of this foundation, we have built a set of open building blocks across RTL, compiler, and runtime, which we are open-sourcing through the OpenHW Foundation (CORE-ET project) and AIFoundry. This open ecosystem enables developers, researchers, and AI agents to co-design across the full stack and directly optimize execution on hardware. This openness is essential: supporting fast-moving models, heterogeneous edge workloads, and agent-driven development requires a system where new kernels, quantization strategies, and architectural innovations can be introduced and composed without vendor constraints.
Tanya is a co-founder of Ainekko: a 100% open-source company on a mission to democratize inference and fine-tuning of all popular open-weight models with a hardware/software product.
Tanya also has started AIFoundry open source ecosystem of AI projects and engineers working on different building blocks of these stacks while maintaining the common goals and compatibility.
Before that Tanya has been involved in the tech world and open source in many different roles. She is an ex-VC @Almaz Capital with OSS and RISC-V portfolio, ex-OSS policy maker, working to integrate developing countries into the global scene while building local independent infrastructure, founder of project helping tech companies affected by the wars to leverage OSS for freedom of tech from politics.