“We were seeing how transformative LLMs would become as the technology moved from the research space to production use,” Cairns said. Many existing observability tools struggled to track LLM outputs at scale, Cairns and Ryan found, while experimentation practices weren’t keeping pace with the fast-moving generative AI field. After the acquisition, Cairns and Ryan joined Twitter, where Cairns led the developer platform and Ryan was the senior director of engineering at Twitter’s Boulder office.Īccording to Cairns, he and Ryan were spurred to launch Freeplay by the challenges they saw enterprises encountering in embracing LLMs. They met at Gnip, a social media API aggregation company, which Twitter acquired in 2014. “Freeplay gives these teams confidence to integrate LLMs into their products and ultimately deliver better customer experiences.”Ĭairns and Eric Ryan co-founded Freeplay last year. “For seasoned product dev teams who might be new to AI, we provide a tool suite that helps them adopt best practices,” Ian Cairns, Freeplay’s co-founder and CEO, told TechCrunch in an email interview. Freeplay, a startup that lets companies build, experiment with and test apps powered by generative AI models, specifically text-generating models, today emerged from stealth with $3.25 million in a seed round co-led by Conviction Ventures and Matchstick Ventures.įounded by ex-Twitter employees, including the former heads of product and engineering for Twitter’s developer platform and enterprise data business, Freeplay aims to give product dev teams tools to prototype and improve the software features powered by large language models - models akin to ChatGPT or Meta’s Llama 2.
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