Suraj Mirpuri

Suraj Mirpuri is an AI researcher and the founder of Lowdown Labs, where he develops subquadratic, constant memory language models designed to run on commodity CPUs instead of GPU datacenters. He is an outspoken critic of the AI industry's datacenter buildout, arguing that runaway compute and energy demand is a design failure rather than an inevitability, and that efficient architectures can deliver capable AI without new datacenters. He holds a B.S. in Chemistry from Caltech and an M.S. in Computer Science (AI/ML) from Georgia Tech, and previously scaled production machine learning systems over millions of daily requests as a Staff ML Engineer. His research spans efficient neural architectures and signal processing (SPML 2026), and he is an IAPP-Certified AI Governance Professional (AI...