Flapping Airplanes
Updated: November 10, 2026
Founders: Aidan Smith, Asher Spector, Benjamin Spector
Country: USA | Funding: $1.2B (+)
Founded: 2025
Website: https://flappingairplanes.com
Flapping Airplanes is an artificial intelligence research lab that focuses on advancing foundational AI technologies. It develops megakernel framework that can perform entire training runs, serve inference and overlap memory-bound inference with compute-bound training - meaning it can run a task that spends most of its time waiting for data to be fetched alongside one that spends most of its time doing math, so the chip is rarely sitting idle. The premise is that AI has barely scratched the surface of what GPUs can do, and they believe it can create intelligent systems “without ingesting half the internet.”
Founded: 2025
Website: https://flappingairplanes.com
Flapping Airplanes is an artificial intelligence research lab that focuses on advancing foundational AI technologies. It develops megakernel framework that can perform entire training runs, serve inference and overlap memory-bound inference with compute-bound training - meaning it can run a task that spends most of its time waiting for data to be fetched alongside one that spends most of its time doing math, so the chip is rarely sitting idle. The premise is that AI has barely scratched the surface of what GPUs can do, and they believe it can create intelligent systems “without ingesting half the internet.”
