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Sweep

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Founded 2023Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Use your favorite JetBrains IDE without compromising on AI. Sweep is the best autocomplete and agent in JetBrains: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/26860-sweep-ai

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
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Founders & team

William Zeng

Founder

Youngest senior MLE at Roblox. Cumulative 10% CTR lift on games search. Stats/ML at CMU. Building Sweep, a Cursor alternative for JetBrains.

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Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Kevin Lu

Founder

Previously: top of class at UWaterloo CS, built the first ML-based skin weight generation model for UGC avatars at Roblox, and NLP researcher on common sense reasoning (in the Bart/T5 era). Now building an AI-powered junior dev and interested in code gen and automated code gen orchestration.

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Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
4team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2023 · Source

News & product activity

Sources & observations

Hacker News · Y Combinator

Profile depthenriched profile
Website observationwebsite unreachable
Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
Pricing evidenceA pricing page was detected
Maturity: Not assessed · 4 of 6 areas documented

Source-based assessment · automated evidence rules

The latest website check does not confirm this company’s website.

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