The AI startup introduced its new ARC tool on Tuesday, a system designed to automatically distribute workloads across different large language models to minimize token spending for developers. Rayline says the open-source routing model can achieve 97.5% of the quality of the Opus 5.5 model while costing as little as 1/10th as much as using the larger model for every task.
Founded by David Gilmore, who previously built cancer-detection software used in hundreds of U.S. hospitals, the company raised $8.5M to build an alternative to the high-margin pricing models of proprietary labs like OpenAI. The launch of ARC is intended to create a decentralized ecosystem that allows AI agents to operate without dependence on any single cloud or provider.
