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.
More than an index entry, but the surface is still mostly links rather than artifacts — the cohort most likely to move a full band from modest, well-targeted work.
API Evangelist profiles Graphcore the way a machine reads it — 1 machine-readable artifact, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Graphcore scores 17.7/100 (emerging), with a separate agent-readiness read of 4/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Graphcore
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Graphcore. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
Security Posture 1
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Graphcore — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 1
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 2
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 3
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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