Prime Intellect hires founders Vik Korrapat and Jay Allen to scale inference and multimodal research

Prime Intellect announces that its founders Vik Korrapat and Jay Allen are joining the company to scale inference and advance its multimodal research and models.

The company, posting on X, cites their earlier work: open vision models with millions of downloads, the Photon inference engine, custom GPU kernels, and a proprietary compiler that automates megakernel generation. The announcement does not state their roles, start dates, or any terms of the hire.