Pangram Raises $9M, Launches New AI Text and Image Detectors

AI content detection startup Pangram announced a $9M funding round led by Menlo Ventures, with participation from Haystack, ScOp, and Deedydas. It also launched two new models: Pangram 4 for text detection and Pangram Image preview for image detection. Pangram 4 achieves 99.66% accuracy and a 0.0041% false positive rate (about one per 24,000 documents), nearly 6x lower than its predecessor; Pangram Image reports 99.5% accuracy on commercial benchmarks. This addresses the rising trust costs as AI-generated content now accounts for 35-50% of internet content.

Confirmed

• Funding: Pangram raised $9M led by Menlo Ventures, with Haystack, ScOp, and Deedydas participating.
• Pangram 4 text detector: 6x larger parameter count than previous generation, with a token-wise head added to the classifier. Benchmarks show 99.66% accuracy and 0.0041% false positive rate, nearly 6x lower than before. Officially more robust against "humanizer" rewrites, multi-author mixed text, and latest frontier model outputs. Uses adversarial training with a "pure rewrite model" trained via reinforcement learning and evolutionary algorithms as a sparring partner; the detector was never trained on that rewrite model's data.
• Pangram Image detector: Public research preview, 99.5% accuracy on commercial benchmarks, can identify images from GPT Image, Gemini's Nano Banana, Midjourney, and other major models, and can detect some AI traces in physical-world photos or screenshots.

Why it matters

• AI-generated content now constitutes 35-50% of internet content, sharply raising trust costs. Pangram aims to address this trust crisis with high-accuracy detection tools.

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