About Menlo
Menlo is an R&D lab rewiring our world with AI & robotics. We’re an applied AI lab that treats intelligence like a public utility in the making.
We work on two tracks at once:
- R&D Core: Investigating new training primitives, data pipelines, and evaluation methods
- Venture Spin‑outs : Product teams that turn those into companies like Jan and Asimov
We’re an R&D lab as a power station and the ventures as the first factories wired to it.
Our Goal
Give builders a place where research and development talk to each other in real time. If your problem involves training models, compressing them, or deploying them in tough environments, Menlo is the partner that ships.
We’re open to joint ventures , co‑founded startups, and experimental pilots with existing orgs. The question is always the same: what problem are you solving, and does AI make it easier, faster, or radically cheaper?
Why this matters
Nobody wakes up wanting to buy electricity, they wake up wanting light. Likewise, nobody wakes up wanting a model checkpoint. They want crops that survive drought, logistics that self‑correct, classrooms that adapt in real time. Menlo builds the unseen wiringdatasets, algorithms, compression tricks, so those visible outcomes become inevitable.
Principles
- A paper means little until it survives the field
- Researchers, engineers, and product designers work shoulder‑to‑shoulder
- We publish methods, share data recipes, and welcome community pull requests
- We build where infrastructure is thin because that’s where the leap is largest
Ways to work with us
- Problem Proposer: Bring a stubborn industry challenge; we’ll co‑design the AI approach
- Founding Engineer: Join a spin‑out in zero‑to‑one phase
- Research Fellow: Chase new training primitives with our core team
Contact us to start a conversation.