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title: "Factory, whose AI coding agents, called Droids, switch between models depending on a task's complexity, raised $200M at a $5B valuation, up from $1.5B in April (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/factory-whose-ai-coding-agents-called-droids-switch-between-models-56901e68
published: 2026-09-15T16:15:43.000Z
byline: "Source: TECHMEME"
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# Factory, whose AI coding agents, called Droids, switch between models depending on a task's complexity, raised $200M at a $5B valuation, up from $1.5B in April (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)

Source: TECHMEME · Published 2026-09-15 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/factory-whose-ai-coding-agents-called-droids-switch-between-models-56901e68

Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal : Factory, whose AI coding agents, called Droids, switch between models depending on a task's complexity, raised $200M at a $5B valuation, up from $1.5B in April — Khosla Ventures, Blackstone and Marc Benioff are among the investors putting $200 million into the startup

In this story: [Blackstone](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/blackstone), [Khosla Ventures](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/khosla-ventures), [AI coding agents](https://frontiernewswire.com/topics/ai-coding-agents)

## Sources

- [Read the original at TECHMEME](https://www.techmeme.com/260915/p37#a260915p37)

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