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Autoresearch as a service: we solve your hardest measurable problems

hiloop helps teams train agents for tasks where general models are not good enough. Give us a task, your current agent or model, and an evaluation. hiloop runs an autoresearch campaign across data, SFT and other post-training methods, continual learning, prompts, tools, harnesses, and systems, then returns the best verified improvement. It runs hosted or in your cloud. We provide the research system around models: persistent memory, full experiment lineage, compute orchestration, and statistical verification. We’re starting with agent and model training, continual learning, and optimization. Reach out to us for early access at founders@hiloop.ai.
Active Founders
Karan Brar
Karan Brar
Founder/CEO
Founder at hiloop (YC S26). Previously ML at Reducto, Head of ML Infra at DynamoAI.
Thomas Boser
Thomas Boser
Founder/CTO
Founder at hiloop. Previously engineer at Reducto, founding engineer at Crosswise, senior ML engineer at Discord, ML at Sentropy & SoFi.
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hiloop: we run thousands of experiments to improve your models
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We're Karan and Thomas, and we're building hiloop: infrastructure for automated research.

TL;DR: we gave two stock coding agents 50 B200s and our infra. They ran 4,188 experiments in two days and beat the published state of the art on Karpathy's autoresearch benchmark. The same machinery found a NanoGPT speedrun candidate that beats the best known result. See full writeup.

Now we want to point it at your hardest problems.

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The results

On Karpathy’s autoresearch benchmark, our final recipe reached 0.9016 val_bpb. The previous best published result was Recursive’s 0.9109 on B200 hardware. For NanoGPT, our implementation had 12.54% lower runtime than upstream.

There was no bespoke research agent or elaborate scaffold. We used Claude and GPT-5.5 out of the box. What changed was the system around them.

What hiloop does

Give us a hard task, your current agent or model, and an evaluation criteria. Hiloop runs an autoresearch campaign across training, data, prompts, tools, harnesses, and systems, then returns the best verified improvement. It runs in your cloud or hosted by us.

We’re starting with agent and model training: SFT, post-training, continual learning, and optimization.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Rv8HttSHZ-yvSJk6hsWQsqCXWTHJQogK

Who we are

We met at Reducto, where we built its ML, post-training, and platform systems. Karan previously led ML infrastructure at DynamoAI . Thomas was a founding engineer at Crosswise and an MLE at Discord and SoFi.

Two asks

  1. Want your models or agents better, faster, or cheaper? If you have a hard objective in post-training, continual learning, inference optimization, or classic ML, send us the task, your baseline, and the eval. We’ll personally run a campaign with you through verified improvement.
  2. Building autoresearch or RSI loops? Reach out to give our system a try! We’d love to compare notes.

Email founders@hiloop.ai to get in touch with us!

hiloop
Founded:2026
Batch:Summer 2026
Team Size:2
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Primary Partner:Ankit Gupta