Friends, customers, and partners — Today, I am excited to share that Aryn has been acquired by Glean!

We started Aryn at the cusp of the AI boom, before the launch of ChatGPT. It was a wild time (and still is). While everyone was (and still is) trying to solve AGI, we wrote a simpler mantra on the back of our shirts: “Answer questions from all of your data.” We worked to use AI to help people in enterprises with their unstructured data.

From the first time I met Arvind Jain (Glean’s CEO), it was clear that Glean’s mission and Aryn’s mission were well aligned. Their vision is big — to enable humans to do extraordinary work — and we like to work on things big. He was humble and decisive. We felt that together we could accelerate and create a way for our combined tech to have a bigger impact. So, why wait?

The Aryn ride has been mad fun. I cannot lie; it was also hard, but the people made it all worthwhile. We are grateful for our customers, including Novacore and DataRobot, who were a guiding light and without whom we’d be floating in a dark abyss. We are grateful for our investors, Factory (Chris Re, Samuel Jackson, Jon Feiber), 8VC (Bhaskar Ghosh, Kevin Chen, Venkatesh Seetharam, Asanka Jayasuriya, and Karen White), Amarjit Gill, and Lip-Bu Tan who saw something in us before the AI boom and still do. We are grateful for all the partners, advisors, employees, friends, and family whose cumulative blood, sweat, and tears got us here.

As we worked to make the future, we gelled into an unforgettable family. We were many things: inspired, nerds, creators, principled, trustworthy, charitable, and goofy.

We are not bowing out; on the contrary, we are on a bigger pitch shooting at a bigger goal. And while we retire the name and logo, we still carry the message on the back of our shirts.

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FAQ

1. What happens to the Aryn cloud service and its APIs?
   Unfortunately, we will be sunsetting the Aryn cloud service. The APIs and our website will remain operational until April 15, 2026. Please reach out to us at info@aryn.ai if you need help transitioning to a new platform.
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2. What happens to the Sycamore open source project?
   Sycamore started as an 100% open source project with Apache License v2.0 and will remain so.
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3. I have lots of data stored with Aryn. How can I move it off?
   Please reach out to us at info@aryn.ai, if you need help downloading your data.
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4. You have an amazing product. Is there any way that I can help you keep it running?
   We appreciate the kind sentiment. Thank you for your support and using our product. Unfortunately, we will be sunsetting the production service.