AgentForge launched cloud AI agents on April 12, 2026, topping AI agent benchmarks: 1,450 Elo on LMSYS Chatbot Arena and 92% on GAIA. Scores beat Claude 3.5 Sonnet by 25 Elo points and GPT-4o by 18. AWS optimizations powered the wins.
Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz led the $150M Series B at $1.2B post-money valuation last month. Funds scale enterprise cloud deployments as Crypto Fear & Greed Index hits 16 and Bitcoin trades at $71,643 USD (CoinMarketCap).
Benchmark Breakdown
LMSYS Chatbot Arena ran 10,000 blind user matchups; AgentForge won 68% (LMSYS.org, April 12, 2026). GAIA pass@1 scored 92%, topping GPT-4o's 74% (Anthropic/OpenAI reports). WebArena hit 78%, beating prior state-of-the-art 62% (Berkeley researchers).
Agents run on AWS SageMaker with Kubernetes clusters and fine-tuned Llama 3.1 405B models (500,000 GPU hours, Lambda Labs). Inference latency fell to 200ms, enabling real-time apps that outpace Anthropic's Computer Use agent by 40% speed.
Key metrics:
- LMSYS Elo: 1,450 (AgentForge) vs. 1,425 (Claude 3.5 Sonnet)
- GAIA pass@1: 92% vs. 74% (GPT-4o)
- WebArena: 78% vs. 62% (SOTA)
Benchmark wins shift investor focus to verifiable agent performance over LLM scale. Founders: Publish public benchmarks to spark FOMO in diligence.
Series B Closes Fast in Fearful Markets
AI startup deals closed 40% faster than fintech in Q1 2026 (PitchBook). AgentForge's Fortune 500 pilot cut ops costs 35% (internal case study for VCs). Deal included $50M AWS credits, extending runway 18 months.
"Public benchmarks create urgency," said CEO Maria Chen (TechCrunch). VCs demand traction metrics; median AI Series B multiples hit 12x ARR (Newcomer). Tactics mirror Adept's $350M round at $1B valuation.
Cloud Scaling Handles 1M Daily Inferences
AgentForge processes 1M daily inferences across 10 AWS regions with Ray clusters. Spot instances cut compute costs 60% vs. on-demand (AWS billing). Uptime reached 99.99% for 50,000 concurrent tasks.
Kubernetes enables sharding; Prometheus drives autoscaling, trimming overprovisioning 45%. Pricing: $0.01/task, matching Google Cloud Run/Azure Functions with 2x throughput.
Open-sourced orchestrator earned 5,000 GitHub stars in week one. Techniques: mixture-of-agents routing, CloudFront caching, multi-region sharding for <100ms global latency. Operators: Replicate for 50% agent fleet savings.
Big Tech Deals Accelerate Growth
Microsoft committed $200M to Azure for Copilot Studio integration (Q3 2026). Amazon pledged $100M AWS credits for Bedrock models. Wins followed AWS re:Invent 2025 demos, yielding 15 NDAs.
Cloud evals show 2x throughput. Startups: Target cloud evals, offer white-label agents, negotiate 20-30% revenue shares. Equity-for-distribution trades pushed AgentForge to $10M ARR.
Roadmap Builds Moats
Q3 2026 adds multi-modal agents and RAG pipelines; cloud spend projected at $500M USD. Adept/Imbue trail 15-20 Elo on LMSYS.
EU AI Act uses Kubernetes logs for compliance. Moats: proprietary orchestration, cloud lock-in, weekly Elo tracking. Playbook: Benchmark publicly, bundle credits, prove pilot metrics. Funding follows even in fearful markets.
AgentForge resets AI agent benchmarks, forcing incumbents to chase cloud-scale performance.