Ben Weaver

director of engineering @squintai, eater of ice cream

[Devin Bhushan @DevinBhushan]

Frontier models weren't built for industrial work.

So we built our own.

Squint's industrial AI model builds a custom knowledge graph for every customer. It's the context layer our apps and agents run on top of, so Squint fits each customer's operation like a glove.

Industrial work demands accuracy and completeness across fragmented sources. Our model delivers, scoring 78% on cross-source benchmarks. Claude Code: 53%. OpenAI: 46%.

h/t @alexrkonrad for covering

[Alex Konrad @alexrkonrad]

EXCLUSIVE: a startup called Squint says its new AI system beats comparable tools from Anthropic and OpenAI in industrials.

Squint fine-tuned a ~2 billion parameter open-weight model on manufacturing and compared it on complex tasks that are tough for a human to answer, CEO Devin Bhushan says.

The results could be a big unlock for manufacturing customers like PepsiCo.

And they present another vertical where specialist startups are racing to keep ahead of the AI labs. Link below 👇

[Jess Lee @jesskah]

3/ Come build with us! 🚀 @SquintAI is a crew of ambitious, high-energy, customer-obsessed builders who travel onsite to some of the coolest manufacturing plants in America to solve thorny business + AI problems. Their attention to detail and Apple-level consumer-grade design shows through in both the product and in their SF office. If this sounds like your kind of adventure ➡️ https://t.co/wQpig6XJf6

[Ben Weaver @weaver_72]

@DevinBhushan @jim_j_zhu @_dylanconway https://t.co/iueukMc2um

[Ben Weaver @weaver_72]

1) When I made the jump to join Squint as employee 6 back in April 2023, I did so for two reasons. First: for the opportunity to work with the most talented, motivated people I knew in my professional career (looking at you, @DevinBhushan , @jim_j_zhu , and @_dylanconway).

[Devin Bhushan @DevinBhushan]

1/ Today, I’m excited to announce @SquintAI's $40M Series B, led by @TheWestlyGroup & @TCVTech, with participation from existing investors @sequoia & @MenloVentures.

Manufacturing is the foundation of the world around us & Squint has quickly become a household name in the industry.

[Ben Weaver @weaver_72]

@DevinBhushan @jim_j_zhu @_dylanconway 4) I'm immensely proud of what we've done to this point, and I'm even more excited for the opportunity ahead. If you are motivated by the chance to build a truly people-first AI platform that will change the manufacturing industry forever, come join us.

[Ben Weaver @weaver_72]

https://t.co/dntyeam1Fh

[hareem @hareemmannan]

our team passed on soham... soham worked at least 5 jobs... we have 10 open eng reqs... therefore we need 2 sohams