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hud

HUD (YC W25) is developing agentic evals and RL environments for Computer Use Agents (CUAs) that browse the web for frontier AI labs. Our CUA Evals framework is the first comprehensive evaluation tool for CUAs. People don't actually know if AI agents are working reliably. To make AI agents work in the real world, we need detailed evals for a huge range of tasks. We're backed by Y Combinator, and work closely with frontier AI labs to provide agent evaluation and training infrastructure at scale.

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Y Combinator

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HUD (YC W25) is developing agentic evals and RL environments for Computer Use Agents (CUAs) that browse the web for frontier AI labs. Our CUA Evals framework is the first comprehensive evaluation tool for CUAs. People don't actually know if AI agents are working reliably. To make AI agents work in the real world, we need detailed evals for a huge range of tasks. We're backed by Y Combinator, and work closely with frontier AI labs to provide agent evaluation and training infrastructure at scale.

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Companies similar to hud

AI agents · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

The Synthesis Company

match 69

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shared extracted concept terms: rl, environment; shared product terms: rl, environment, frontier, labs; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Sepal AI

match 57

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shared product terms: labs, evaluation, people, actually; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: AI agents; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Hyperbrowser

match 57

Hyperbrowser.ai is the internet infrastructure for AI agents. We provide instant, scalable browser infra with built-in CAPTCHA solving, proxy management, and anti-bot detection. Developers use us to power their AI agents for data collection, testing, and web automation at scale. We're backed by YC, Accel, SV Angel, and others.

shared product terms: yc, web, re, back; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: AI agents; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Relari

match 51

Relari is building the infrastructure for trustworthy AI agents in the Software 3.0 era. We’re the company behind Nuvi.dev — a natural language agent builder that turns plain-English specifications into intelligent, verifiable agents — as well as the open-source frameworks Agent Contract and continuous-eval, which ensure AI systems behave as intended.

shared extracted concept terms: eval; shared product terms: eval, framework, re, infrastructure; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: AI agents; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Parakey

match 51

Parakey was founded in early 2006 by Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt of Mozilla/Firefox fame. Little has been revealed about what Parakey will actually do, but it has been touted as both a platform and set of applications that will merge the desktop environment with the Web. It has also been described as a Web-based operating system. Great emphasis has been placed on Parakey's potential to make tasks on the computer more intuitive for the average Joe. Parakey was acquired by Facebook on July 19, 2007.

shared extracted concept terms: environment; shared product terms: environment, computer, web, actually; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Ooak Data

match 44

The promise of AI agents is still unmet in complex, real-world business environments. Our mission is to make it possible for agents to reliably accomplish concrete and useful tasks. That’s why we're building **Alexandria,** the world's largest library of real-world business workflow datasets.

shared product terms: real, environment, reliably, task; same category: AI agents; shared affiliation: Y Combinator