Thomas Sohmers

Co-founder, CTO & Chairman, Positron AI

Search every verified Thomas Sohmers interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Thomas Sohmers, co-founder, CTO, and chairman of Positron AI, appeared in a September 2026 podcast interview where he discussed the company's work on AI inference infrastructure and the broader industry landscape. He described Positron AI's focus on making AI inference more cost- and energy-efficient, contrasting it with training infrastructure, and explained technical topics such as memory constraints and precision reduction in AI computation. During the interview, Sohmers expressed opposition to the current pace of frontier AI development, saying he is "overall opposed to the pace of the frontier direction it's going in," and noted he values comments from figures like Mark Zuckerberg or Dario Amodei more than those from politicians he described as lacking understanding. Sohmers also addressed political and economic concerns, stating that opposition to data centers has become a unifying issue across the political spectrum, which he characterized as "almost entirely a Chinese psyop." He argued that a single In-N-Out restaurant uses more water than the largest U.S. data centers. Additionally, he warned of a major sovereign debt problem and its potential effects on the financial system, citing inflationary consequences and growing perceived risk in bond markets. Positron AI recently announced an $875 million Series C round at a $5 billion valuation, with backing from investors including Atreides Management, NEA, Valor Equity Partners, and Jim Clark.