Despite competition from Martian Router, OpenRouter, and Portkey, Unify claims to be the only company optimizing for quality, cost, and speed. The startup, currently with seven employees, plans to hire three more this year. It has about 3000 sign-ups and a few hundred regular users. The company plans to monetize by charging companies for building their own custom benchmarks. The recent investment came from various investors including SignalFire, M12, J12, Essence VC, A. Capital, Lunar VC, Y Combinator, and several industry angels.
Key takeaways:
- Unify, a British startup, has developed a router tool that helps developers find the best Large Language Model (LLM) for their specific needs by entering parameters.
- The company recently announced an $8 million investment from various investors including SignalFire, M12, J12, Essence VC, A. Capital. Lunar VC, Y Combinator and several industry angels.
- Unify's router tool uses AI to determine which models are best for specific tasks, learning from exhaustive benchmarks on each new model using GPT Pro as a judge.
- The company plans to monetize by charging companies for building their own custom benchmarks and currently has about 3000 sign ups with a few hundred regular users.