AI startups aim to automate formal software verification with $365M funding
&Truth and Harmonic are among startups using AI to make formal software verification—proving code is bug-free—more practical. &Truth, founded by former Stanford researcher Sun, raised $70 million and demonstrated AI verifying Signal’s encryption code. Harmonic, cofounded by Robinhood’s Vlad Tenev, secured $295 million and claims its AI agent Aristotle can verify C code and hardware designs in…
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- &Truth raised $70M to automate formal verification of encryption code, including Signal’s, using AI
- Harmonic’s $295M-funded AI agent Aristotle targets C code and Verilog hardware designs, tested by Nvidia
- Anthropic and Theorem used AI to find bugs in open-source code missed by trillions of tests
Critics like Antithesis’s Will Wilson call formal verification a ‘pain in the ass,’ citing high costs and slow turnaround. Even Apple’s security team admits it must be ‘conservative’ to keep pace with verification. Yet proponents argue AI could make it viable for broader use, from cloud security to AI-generated code. Startups like Truidic and Proofcraft are racing to meet surging demand, though concerns remain about over-reliance on AI-generated proofs.
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