# Graphcore

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/graphcore/  
**Website:** https://www.graphcore.ai  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 17.0 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 17.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 57.4 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 33.3 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Graphcore Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Artificial Intelligence, Machine-Learning, Semiconductors, AI Accelerator, Hardware, Deep Learning, SDK, Developer Tools

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/graphcore/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.