SID

Overview

SID trains retrieval models that are more accurate, cheaper, and faster.

Funding and backers

Team
11-50
employees, estimated range
Backers
1
Y Combinator
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jun 2023 Went through Y Combinator
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
1
best: 4 points
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Y CombinatorVia a fund
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News

News SID AI 11 months ago
SID-1 Technical Report: Test-Time Compute for Retrieval
SID-1 is the first model trained end-to-end with RL solely for agentic retrieval. It reaches 0.84 recall on a diverse benchmark, compared to 0.78 for GPT-5.1 and 0.45 for traditional reranking pipelines. This report covers our infrastructure, reward desig
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
San Francisco United States
HQ
10-50 est. staff