Mountain View-based AI meta-system developer Poetiq has raised $45.8 million in seed funding, led by FYRFLY Venture Partners and Surface Ventures, with additional participation from Y Combinator, 468 Capital, Operator Collective, Hico Ventures and Neuron Venture Partners.
According to the announcement, Poetiq’s platform integrates with any major frontier large language model, including ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, to reduce the data, time and cost required for advanced problem solving. Instead of relying on thousands or millions of training examples, customers can provide just a few hundred examples, allowing the meta-system to generate and continuously refine a specialized AI agent tailored to a particular task.
The funding follows Poetiq’s recent results on the ARC-AGI-2 benchmark, which measures machine reasoning and progress toward artificial general intelligence.
“LLMs are impressive databases that encode a vast amount of humanity’s collective knowledge. They are simply not the best tools for deep reasoning. That’s why efforts to improve their problem-solving skills are so slow and expensive. For ARC-AGI 1 and 2, we used recursive self-improvement to produce specialized agents in a matter of hours. It demonstrates how much we can help with problems that have been too hard or too expensive for LLMs alone,” Shumeet Baluja, co-CEO of Poetiq, said in a statement.
