Max Petriev

Ex-CTO & co-founder @ TheStage AI (inference optimization, $4.5M raised). In SF exploring AI agent infrastructure. Building & talking to builders.

[Max Petriev @maxpetriev]

@vargastartup Huge congrats guys 🚀
This looks insanely promising. Love the “video as code” direction — feels like a very important shift.

[Nick Davidov @Nick_Davidov]

Everyone is behind on AI.
Even if you’re in the field, every day, building, it’s just so easy to lose something the big picture.

Each year we gather a group of top thinkers and builders - researchers, founders, executives, engineers, and investors to do a 360 and try to catch each other up and fall down a few Rabbit Holes along the way.

Join us for the AI Rabbit Hole 2026: the AI Bubble Tea Party.

The lineup for this year is already insane: founders of top AI startups, researchers from top labs, execs from key infrastructure players, the most active and successful VCs.

Here’s a video from our last one:

[TheStage AI @TheStageAI]

Wrong model = slow app.
We help you pick the right one for your GPU.

You can now explore a new Models section on our platform — with performance-optimized versions of open-source models like Qwen, Mistral, Llama, DeepSeek, and Flux.

These models are tuned for real tasks:
→ image generation and editing
→ chat & Q&A
→ brand asset creation

How it works:
1. Pick your hardware (H100, L40S, B200, or custom).
2. Compare speed, quality, and memory with a slider.
3. Test in the Playground.
4. Deploy in 1 line.

Built in a familiar format — like Hugging Face, but tuned for speed.

Runs anywhere: @awscloud , @Azure , @nebiusai , or your own VPC.

Try it — kinda fun.
👉 https://t.co/y03kvT0zDR

[Nebius @nebiusai]

🎩 Optimizing inference with math: TheStage AI and its framework
https://t.co/FHJy7OW4QQ

The inference market has grown so significantly that inefficiencies between revenue and inference costs have emerged. @TheStageAI’s solution, which uses our infrastructure, is designed to close this gap. Based on an award candidate @CVPR article and other papers, the product is an automatic neural network analyzer, or ANNA for short.