Niteshift, 개발자들이 OpenAI 락인에서 벗어나도록 $7M 유치
전 datadog 엔지니어들이 niteshift를 위해 $7m을 유치했습니다. niteshift는 모델 간 라우팅을 통해 벤더 락인을 방지하는 ai 코딩 인프라 플랫폼으로, 프론티어 랩들이 버티컬 소프트웨어로 확장하는 가운데 주목받고 있습니다.
niteshift, founded by former datadog engineers sajid mehmood and conor branagan, raised a $7m seed round led by greylock to build infrastructure that routes between various coding models. unlike competitors like cursor or cognition, niteshift charges for infrastructure rather than tokens, positioning itself as an 'unbundled' layer for coding agents. this addresses growing enterprise concerns about 'saaSpocalypse,' where frontier labs like openai and anthropic release tools that compete directly with their customers. investors, including reid hoffman and datadog founders, back the strategy based on the team's experience scaling multi-cloud monitoring. the startup faces a crowded market against well-funded rivals betting that enterprises will prioritize independence from single model vendors.