Startup Plurai raised $13 million in a seed round led by Team8, with participation from U&I, Velocity and Mercer, TechCrunch reported. Co-founders Ilan Kadar and Elad Levi previously worked at Nexar, which develops autonomous driving technology, and Kadar worked with Waymo on simulating and evaluating its driving software.
Plurai applies the self-driving approach to AI agents: it builds a digital twin of the systems, knowledge bases and tools an agent will use, maps all possible flows and tests edge cases. Kadar says the main direction is to use that data to post-train small open-weight models for each customer. According to the company, in tests with Nvidia and Nebius its models outperformed mid-tier frontier models at lower cost.