Organization
Consumer products · Enterprise software · Sunnyvale, California
Subsidiary of Microsoft
LinkedIn is a professional networking service owned by Microsoft, which reports it within its Productivity and Business Processes segment. Its engineering team develops and maintains Liger Kernel, an open-source library of Triton GPU kernels for training large language models.13810
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Frameworks
- Liger KernelSoftwareAvailability: Public
Organizational relationships
- Parent organization: Microsoft (Subsidiary)
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Notable documented facts
- Microsoft's Form 10-K for fiscal 2026 describes LinkedIn's paid offerings as Talent Solutions, Marketing Solutions, Premium Subscriptions, and Sales Solutions. This catalog has not reviewed the AI features within those products.1
- LinkedIn Engineering's December 2024 post on Liger Kernel says LinkedIn uses the kernels in its own LLM training infrastructure alongside FlashAttention, with Flyte scheduling jobs on Kubernetes.10
U.S. eligibility
Eligible · basis: Documented U.S. control
Microsoft completed its acquisition of LinkedIn on December 8, 2016, and Exhibit 21 to Microsoft's Form 10-K for fiscal 2026 lists LinkedIn Corporation (United States) as a subsidiary. Microsoft Corporation is a Washington corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington. LinkedIn's careers site describes its global headquarters campus as being in Sunnyvale, California, and LinkedIn Corporation's legal-notice mailing address is there; its privacy policy names LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company as the controller for members in the EU, EEA, and Switzerland.321456
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