Moonbounce, an AI control platform just recently launched and backed by $12 million in funding, has come out of stealth to tackle what may be among the biggest issues facing corporate implementation of AI technology by guaranteeing the reliable, predictable, and compliant performance of generative AI. Founded with backing from major venture capital firms such as Amplify Partners and StepStone Group, the company offers a patented control engine that converts the fixed content policies currently in place at companies into an ongoing method of control in real time, providing the capability to steer the AI decision process as it occurs. With the rapid development of generative AI use cases across all kinds of sectors, existing control solutions based on manual review and hardcoding rules have proven inadequate to cope with the speed and volume at which AI output is produced. “Most companies know what they want their AI or platform to do. The hard part is making sure it actually does it – every time, without exception.” That’s the problem Moonbounce solves,” said Brett Levenson, Co-founder and CEO of Moonbounce.
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“We give teams precise control over behavior at the moment decisions are being made, so they can focus on growth instead of firefighting.” With deployments currently in place on platforms including dating apps, content creation platforms, and AI chatbots, this platform is currently handling over a trillion tokens and assessing tens of millions of content pieces per day for an estimated 250 million-plus user base monthly, illustrating scalability and proof of concept within real world implementations. The firm also offers a playground where teams can test out their logic, thereby significantly speeding up implementation cycles to weeks instead of months. Given that the founders’ experience comes out of giants such as Meta and Apple, this firm sets itself up as a foundation for AI governance in AI ecosystems. “Content moderation has always been a problem that plagued large online platforms, but now with LLMs at the heart of every application, this challenge is even more daunting,” said Lenny Pruss, General Partner at Amplify Partners. “We invested in Moonbounce because we envision a world where objective, real-time guardrails become the enabling backbone of every AI-mediated application.”
