About
Akshay Budhkar is founder and CEO of Spine AI. He previously worked at Georgian Partners advising B2B SaaS companies and leading generative AI and applied research initiatives, and held roles at Scribd and FarmLogs. He completed a Master's degree at the University of Toronto with focus on generative AI.
Akshay Budhkar @budhkarakshay
Agreed — the harness matters a lot. We saw it too: Same GPT-5.6 Sol worker: 7/11 alone → 11/11 with Medley on a hard Terminal-Bench set. With a grade-blind meta-harness, we set new reported highs on HealthBench, ViBench, and DrugDiscoveryBench. Report: https://t.co/3Szr8RYUoO https://t.co/UCNd5Vecdq
Jul 30, 2026 · ♥ 4
Akshay Budhkar @budhkarakshay
Some of our largest gains appear outside coding: the largest full-benchmark lift was in drug discovery, and the strongest same-worker lift was in health. That makes sense. Most agent harnesses inherit software conventions: repositories as shared state, patches as artifacts, and
Jul 29, 2026
Akshay Budhkar @budhkarakshay
The learned skills transfer across model families. We ran setup once per workload. The frozen skills were then reused—not retuned—across frontier, previous-generation, and open-weight model/runtime arms. With those same frozen skills, an open-weight Kimi K3 system scored 66.37 https://t.co/o6nv40jutD
Jul 29, 2026
Founder at Spine AIYC S23
Intro paths
Akshay went through Y Combinator (Summer 2023) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Harj Taggar, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Spine AI's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
In turn, Akshay can intro founders to Spine AI's investors below.
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