Graphcore

Graphcore is a semiconductor and AI-computing company that designs the Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU), a processor purpose-built for machine intelligence workloads, along with the IPU-Machine, IPU-POD and Bow systems that scale it. Its developer surface is the Poplar SDK software stack -- Poplar, PopART (Poplar Advanced Runtime), PopTorch (a PyTorch interface for the IPU) and PopLibs -- distributed as open-source components on GitHub and as prebuilt wheels in the Poplar SDK download. Graphcore targets training and inference for deep-learning models and integrates with standard frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow and ONNX. Founded in Bristol, UK, Graphcore became part of SoftBank Group in 2024. It exposes no public REST API; this profile catalogs its software developer surface. Surfaced originally as a portfolio company of Atomico, Balderton Capital and DCVC and enriched by the API Evangelist pipeline.

Graphcore is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Semiconductors, and AI Accelerator.

Graphcore’s developer surface includes documentation, engineering blog, support, and 11 more developer resources.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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Composite quality — 17.7/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 6.1 / 20

Commercial Clarity 4.2 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 4/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Packages

Packages

SDKs

SDKs

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Downloads

Downloads

Source (apis.yml)

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description: Graphcore is a semiconductor and AI-computing company that designs the Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU), a
  processor purpose-built for machine intelligence workloads, along with the IPU-Machine, IPU-POD and Bow systems that scale
  it. Its developer surface is the Poplar SDK software stack -- Poplar, PopART (Poplar Advanced Runtime), PopTorch (a PyTorch
  interface for the IPU) and PopLibs -- distributed as open-source components on GitHub and as prebuilt wheels in the Poplar
  SDK download. Graphcore targets training and inference for deep-learning models and integrates with standard frameworks
  such as PyTorch, TensorFlow and ONNX. Founded in Bristol, UK, Graphcore became part of SoftBank Group in 2024. It exposes
  no public REST API; this profile catalogs its software developer surface. Surfaced originally as a portfolio company of
  Atomico, Balderton Capital and DCVC and enriched by the API Evangelist pipeline.
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