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Zyphra

Model developer · Research lab · Inference provider · San Francisco, California

Zyphra is a San Francisco AI company that trains open foundation models, including the Zamba hybrid state-space language models and the ZAYA1 mixture-of-experts models. It also runs Zyphra Cloud, a hosted platform for model inference and GPU compute.1758

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Key facts

Legal name
Zyphra Technologies, Inc.34
Ownership
Privately held
Legal form
Unknown
Headquarters
San Francisco, California389
Other documented locations
London, United Kingdom2
Founded
Unknown
Sectors
Open models, Research, Cloud

What is and isn’t public

An evidence-based summary of what this catalog has documented. It is not a verdict on the organization as a whole.

Zyphra publishes model weights on Hugging Face, including the Zamba, ZAYA1, and Zonos models, as well as the Zyda pretraining datasets. Its Zamba2-VL and ZAYA1-8B announcements state Apache 2.0 licensing. Zyphra Cloud and Maia are hosted services. This catalog assesses openness release by release (see the Zamba release records).111085

Products

Documented products and how they are delivered. Each row links to the official page.

Hosted model products

Labeled Closed product/API — this describes how a documented product is delivered (hosted access). It is not an open artifact and says nothing about other releases by the same organization.

Zyphra: hosted model products
ProductKindDocumented delivery and accessReviewed
Maia (external site: zyphra.com)Assistant appAgent for teams that works across language, audio, and images and connects to tools such as Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Drive. The product page links to the Zyphra Cloud login and does not state availability or pricing terms.6Sep 29, 2026

Other products

Zyphra: other products
ProductKindDocumented delivery and accessReviewed
Zyphra Cloud (external site: zyphra.com)Inference serviceHosted platform with serverless inference for open-weight models (including a ZAYA1-8B endpoint), reserved capacity for production deployments, and GPU compute. Users sign up and log in at cloud.zyphra.com.58Sep 29, 2026

Related open artifacts

Records in the Open Models & Tools directory that list this organization as a maintainer or publisher.

Model families (1)

Model releases (2)

  • Zamba2-7BModel releaseAvailability: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.1): Open-weight
  • Zamba2-VL-7BModel releaseAvailability: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.1): Open-weight

Notable documented facts

  • Zyphra's research index lists the Zamba line (April 2024 to June 2026) and the ZAYA1 line (from November 2025), which Zyphra says was trained end to end on AMD hardware. Its Hugging Face organization also hosts the Zonos text-to-speech models, the ZUNA models, and the Zyda pretraining datasets.711

U.S. eligibility

How this record meets the catalog’s published eligibility policy.

Eligible · basis: U.S. headquarters

Zyphra's terms of use (May 2026) and privacy policy (August 2026) name Zyphra Technologies, Inc. at 415 Mission Street, San Francisco, and apply California law with San Francisco venue. Its May 2026 release announcement describes the company as headquartered in San Francisco. The about page describes the company as based in San Francisco and London; no foreign parent or headquarters was found.3482

Assessed Sep 29, 2026

Eligibility policy

Sources

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    Zyphra (external site: zyphra.com)

    Zyphra · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026

  2. 2.
    About | Zyphra (external site: zyphra.com)

    Zyphra · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026

  3. 3.
    Terms of Use | Zyphra (external site: zyphra.com)

    Zyphra Technologies, Inc. · Official page · published May 4, 2026 · accessed Sep 29, 2026

  4. 4.
    Privacy Policy | Zyphra (external site: zyphra.com)

    Zyphra Technologies, Inc. · Official page · published Aug 20, 2026 · accessed Sep 29, 2026

  5. 5.
    Zyphra Cloud (external site: zyphra.com)

    Zyphra · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026

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    Maia | Zyphra (external site: zyphra.com)

    Zyphra · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026

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    Zyphra Research (external site: zyphra.com)

    Zyphra · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026

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    Zamba2-VL: Hybrid SSM Vision-Language Models (external site: zyphra.com)

    Zyphra · Announcement · published Jun 2, 2026 · accessed Sep 29, 2026

  11. 11.
    Zyphra on Hugging Face (external site: huggingface.co)

    Zyphra · Repository · accessed Sep 29, 2026

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