Today, @lhyTHU and I are excited to announce that Subconscious has raised $5.1M to build the inference platform for long-horizon agents. Subconscious (@subsysdev) was born out of MIT research and frustration that the inference engines are wildly inefficient at tasks that consume lots of tokens over many steps, AKA agents. So, we designed a system specifically for those workloads, and it couldn't have come at a better time. Inference usage is growing 2,500% year over year, agents are consuming the vast majority of those tokens, and open models have nearly closed the gap on closed models. Every megatrend is pointed towards vastly more distributed agents, but they are still too slow, inefficient, and unreliable for many companies and use cases. Not anymore. Using the same chips and the same models, our inference system makes agents 2x faster, 50% cheaper, and up to 10% more accurate on workloads that consume over 200k tokens. These gains are just the tip of the iceberg of what you can optimize when you design an inference system top to bottom with long-horizon agents as the primary workload. If you're using coding agents or building agentic products, Subconscious is another stepwise gain in performance and efficiency. Developers can get started today using our API at subconscious.dev AI proliferation is a polarizing topic, but we believe it's going to be extremely positive for the world. Our mission: "allow everyone to do meaningful work and automate the rest without selling your soul". We think reliable, fast, and inexpensive agents will allow people to focus on problems that matter, automate all the monotonous work in between, and then leave plenty of time to enjoy their lives. That's the beautiful world what agents can bring to us, and we deeply believe you shouldn't have to sell your soul to get there. We've been operating for over a year and a half, but today we're finally excited to announce our fundraise, launch our managed inference service, and share that we're growing the team. $5.1M is our total amount raised to date across our pre-seed and seed round. Both rounds were led by @massventures, with participation from @FoothillVenture, @UnderscoreVC , Oak Seed Ventures, @companyonvc, @theagentfund, @e14fund, and Taihill Venture. A special thanks to Stacy Swider who believed in us more than anyone else from day one. Read the full release here: lnkd.in/g_GKeip7