Via AI exits stealth claiming SWE-Bench Verified lead with LLM-optimized compression at half the cost
ashajadeja · x · 2026-10-21
Via AI, founded by two Stanford CS dropouts (Olympiad gold medalists, IIT/Stanford researchers), exits stealth to offer frontier AI coding to enterprises at half the cost. Its core tech, Codegraph—an LLM-optimized compression algorithm—topped SWE-Bench Verified for several months of 2025, ahead of Anthropic, OpenAI, Cognition, and Cursor with a single model and no test-time compute.
Backers include ex-Amazon Worldwide Consumer CEO Jeff Wilke, ex-Uber CPO Manik Gupta, and ex-Google MD Shailesh Rao, plus veterans from Anthropic, Apple, Snowflake, and Twitter.
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