A developer built Errand, an open-source alternative to Grok Bot and Muse, in about one week as a roughly 4,000-line TypeScript desktop app that runs on the Runta Cloud Agents API. Errand relies on Ru…
Errand, an open-source macOS app for Apple Silicon, launched as a client for persistent AI agents that each run on their own Runta cloud computer with files and tools that stay in the agent's workspac…
Runta's FrontierHarness v1.0 benchmark, evaluating nine harnesses across 12 configurations on software development and terminal tasks, found pass rates ranging from 50.0% to 66.7% but cost per complet…
FrontierHarness Eval, a new benchmark from Runta, tested nine AI coding harnesses on the same model and found median cost per successful task varies by 17x, with Claude Code v2.1.237 passing 19 tasks …
Lunar, a terminal coding harness extensible via Lua, has been released as an open-source tool on GitHub by developer gszr. It provides four tools—read, write, edit, and bash—and supports any OpenAI Ch…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) led a $20 million funding round for Runta, a startup that helps businesses 'parent' AI agents by wrapping them in isolated environments and guardrails to prevent damage, val…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is leading the seed round for Runta, a startup rebuilding the execution layer for AI agents to provide efficient, secure, and stateful compute that can run locally or in the…
Runta, an AI infrastructure startup, raised $20 million in seed funding led by Andreessen Horowitz at a post-money valuation of over $100 million, announced July 16, 2026. The company builds guardrail…