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What shipped, and when.

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2026

7 entries
  • 2026-05-15
    Launch

    Private beta opens

    Bytevion is in private beta. Reply with your monthly request volume and we will send a key the same day.

  • 2026-05-04
    Contract

    First signed enterprise contract: Primer (London)

    Primer API Limited signed a 12-month production contract for the Byte control plane. $200K year one (platform plus 18M committed BCUs at $0.006), BYOK, 99.9% uptime SLA, UK/EU residency.

  • 2026-04-28
    Pilot

    Uniphore APAC replay: 743K requests in 11.7 hours

    Replayed live APAC traffic across seven workloads through the Singapore hub. 61.6% cost reduction, 63.5% latency reduction, 65.1% fewer errors. Projected $439K per month at equivalent traffic. Moving to full APAC production.

  • 2026-04-18
    Product

    Compare Mode, Metrics Dashboards, Playground

    Shipped the customer-facing console: side-by-side Direct vs Byte comparison with cost, latency and token deltas; per-route dashboards for cache hit rate and savings; and a playground for testing caching, routing and compression before production.

  • 2026-04-10
    Pilot

    Render pilot: 1M requests in 24 hours

    Production pilot across support, code, document QA and reasoning workloads. 58.6% cost reduction, 62.4% latency reduction, 11.1% higher quality. $16,026 net savings in 24 hours. 3.7 day payback.

  • 2026-03-22
    Product

    Byte Server and API Portal

    Moved from a research backend to a customer-ready platform. Added CLI, in-process SDKs and a web playground. Built the API Portal for routing traffic, monitoring usage, and managing provider keys.

  • 2026-03-08
    Research

    Adaptive cache reuse bands

    Started shipping per-embedding reuse bands instead of a single global similarity threshold. Quietly improved cache hit rate on long-tail workloads without raising false-reuse rates.