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PodcastThe a16z ShowOctober 21, 2026

The Missing Infrastructure for AI Agents: Documents | Reducto’s Adit Abraham

Document extraction remains a specialized infrastructure bottleneck that frontier model labs are unlikely to solve themselves.

  • Seven billion pages: Reducto now processes billions of pages monthly, crossing its seven billionth page the morning of recording; CEO Adit Abraham expects eight billion by end of October.
  • R1 model closes the gap: Reducto's own post-trained vision-language model (R1) hits high-90s accuracy at roughly one cent per page, far cheaper than frontier models at comparable accuracy.

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