Cornell Professor's Startup Makora Wins $1.75M to Make AI Faster and Cheaper to Run
srush_nlp · x · 2026-10-31
Makora, a startup co-founded by Cornell Tech assistant professor Mohamed Abdelfattah, received a $1.75 million award from the NSF-supported STRIDE Ventures AI Efficiency Challenge to make AI inference faster and less costly to run.
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