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Bird secures $450M and opens its infrastructure to AI agents.
Debt financing led by J.P. Morgan. Still private and independent.
Meet Agentic Harness: agents can email, use WhatsApp, make calls—even get their own eSIM.
What would you build with it?View quoted post on X
Jev vs. Claude vs. Rules: We ran a real fraud ring through all three.View quoted post on X
The headline result is that Jev classified best at 93% recall, followed closely by the velocity rules our Data Analyst Agent proposed at 90%, with an LLM making the classification decision trailing at 62%.
This shows Jev is great at reasoning and classification jobs compared to LLMs.
The fact that Jev was so close to a Data Analyst agent (which could write multiple SQL queries to investigate the fraud ring) is the real finding.
Classification in code was already near-optimal, and Jev matched it. Read more in the article:
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Owner has raised $240M, reached a $2.3B valuation, and crossed $100M ARR.
Goldman Sachs Alternatives led the round, joined by Meritech, Redpoint, Headline, & Jack Altman.
The world is racing to build AI to replace people’s jobs. Owner is building AI to do the opposite:View quoted post on X
