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    3. gepa-ai

    gepa-ai

    Automatically optimize prompts, code, and agent architectures using LLM-based reflection, achieving frontier performance with 90x lower costs than Reinforcement Learning.

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    At a Glance

    1Tool Listed
    2Products
    6Capabilities
    Discussions
    Berkeley, CAHeadquarters
    2025Est.
    50Employees
    Focus Areas
    Prompt Engineering
    LLM Orchestration
    Agent Frameworks
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    Latest News
    Learning, Fast and Slow: Towards LLMs That Adapt ContinuallyMay 11, 2026
    Scaling GEPA with Combee: Parallel Prompt Learning for Self-Improving AgentsApr 9, 2026
    Markets
    • AI Engineers
    • Enterprise AI Teams
    • LLM Researchers
    • Open Source Community

    AI Tools by gepa-ai

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    GEPA

    Genetic Prompt Auto Optimizer

    Prompt EngineeringLLM OrchestrationAgent Frameworks

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    Latest News

    05/11/2026

    Learning, Fast and Slow: Towards LLMs That Adapt Continually

    gepa-ai.github.io
    04/09/2026

    Scaling GEPA with Combee: Parallel Prompt Learning for Self-Improving Agents

    gepa-ai.github.io
    03/17/2026

    Confidence-Aware Prompt Optimization for LLM Classification

    gepa-ai.github.io
    02/18/2026

    Automatically Learning Skills for Coding Agents

    gepa-ai.github.io

    Products & Services

    2
    GEPA Framework
    July 2025

    A framework for optimizing any system with textual parameters using LLM-based reflection and Pareto-efficient evolutionary search.

    optimize_anything API
    February 18, 2026

    A universal API for optimizing prompts, code, agent architectures, and configurations against any evaluation metric.

    Market Position

    Outperforms GRPO (Reinforcement Learning) on accuracy while being 90x cheaper and 35x faster, offering fully interpretable and human-readable optimization traces.

    Leadership

    Founders

    LA

    Lakshya A Agrawal

    PhD student at UC Berkeley Sky Lab, Co-founder of Bespoke Labs. Lead developer of dspy.GRPO and GEPA. Previously at Ai2.

    ST

    Shangyin Tan

    PhD student at UC Berkeley Sky Lab working on Compound AI systems and agents. Previously worked at Databricks.

    Executive Team

    LA

    Lakshya A Agrawal

    Lead Researcher/Developer

    PhD Student at UC Berkeley, expert in prompt optimization and DSPy.

    ST

    Shangyin Tan

    Lead Researcher/Developer

    PhD Student at UC Berkeley, expert in agentic AI and compilers.

    Board of Directors

    MZ
    Matei Zaharia
    Professor at UC Berkeley / Co-founder of Databricks
    OK
    Omar Khattab
    Assistant Professor at MIT / Creator of DSPy
    IS
    Ion Stoica
    Professor at UC Berkeley / Co-founder of Databricks & Anyscale

    Founding Story

    GEPA was developed at the UC Berkeley Sky Computing Lab to overcome the limitations of Reinforcement Learning for prompt optimization, specifically focusing on data efficiency, cost, and interpretability through natural language reflection.

    Business Model

    Revenue
    Not disclosed (Research grant-funded).

    Revenue Model

    Open Source (Free). Users pay for their own LLM API costs (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.).

    Pricing Tiers

    Open Source / Community
    $0

    Available via pip install gepa. Free to use with your own API keys.

    Private (Research Project)

    Target Markets

    Industries & Segments
    • AI Engineers
    • Enterprise AI Teams
    • LLM Researchers
    • Open Source Community
    Use Cases
    • Agent prompt optimization
    • Code generation tuning
    • Cloud scheduling policy discovery
    • Reasoning task performance improvement
    • Cost reduction for enterprise AI agents
    Notable Customers
    • Shopify
    • OpenAI
    • Databricks
    • Pydantic

    Quick Facts

    Headquarters
    Berkeley, CA
    Founded
    2025
    Entity Type
    Open Source Research Initiative
    Employees
    50
    Total Funding
    Undisclosed (Supported by Laude Institute Slingshot Grant)
    Investors
    Laude Institute
    Office Locations
    Berkeley

    Funding History

    Grant (Slingshot)Undisclosed
    November 2025
    Laude Institute

    History & Milestones

    February 13, 2026

    Launched the official GEPA engineering and research blog.

    February 18, 2026

    Released v0.1.1 and the 'optimize_anything' universal API for text parameter optimization.

    March 2026

    Achieved 40.2% cost savings in cloud scheduling use cases with optimized policies.

    April 2026

    Introduced Combee for scaling GEPA to parallel prompt learning for self-improving agents.

    July 2025

    Published 'GEPA: Reflective Prompt Evolution Can Outperform Reinforcement Learning' (arXiv:2507.19457).

    Key Capabilities

    6
    Actionable Side Information (ASI) for diagnostic LLM feedback
    Reflective Prompt Evolution using LLM critique
    System-aware merging of prompt candidates
    Pareto-efficient evolutionary search
    Support for API-only models (No weight access required)
    Human-readable optimization traces

    Integrations & Partnerships

    Platform Integrations

    • DSPy
    • SuperOptiX
    • DeepEval
    • MLFlow
    • Python (PyPI)

    Key Partnerships

    UC Berkeley Sky Computing Lab
    MIT
    Stanford University

    Connect

    Website
    gepa-ai.github.io/gepa/
    GitHub
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    AI Topics

    3

    gepa-ai focuses on these topics:

    Prompt Engineering(1)
    LLM Orchestration(1)
    Agent Frameworks(1)
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