Amp

Amp is built by Amp Frontier Corporation. It began life inside Sourcegraph, the code-search company, launching in 2025 as Sourcegraph's AI-native coding agent and the practical successor for individual developers after Cody moved toward enterprise-only use.

On December 2, 2025, Amp spun out of Sourcegraph to become an independent research lab, with Sourcegraph co-founders Quinn Slack and Beyang Liu leading the new company and Dan Adler taking over Sourcegraph's code-search business. Amp says it was already profitable at the time of the spin-out, and shared investors including Craft, Redpoint, Sequoia, Goldcrest, and a16z sit on both boards.

Amp takes a natural-language instruction, plans a multi-step approach, edits files across the entire repository, runs commands and tests, reads the results, and iterates until the task is complete. It deliberately avoids step-by-step edit approval in favor of letting agents run, and can dispatch multiple agents in parallel on remote machines called 'orbs' that keep working even when your laptop is closed. Results can be verified with screenshots, videos, and live dev portals rather than manual review.

It runs as a CLI, an editor extension (VS Code and compatible editors), on the web with nothing to install, and on mobile. Amp routes work across frontier models via selectable 'modes' (low, medium, high, ultra) that trade cost against reasoning power, and it can use tokens from a linked ChatGPT or X Premium+/SuperGrok subscription. Amp is extensible through plugins and shareable skills.

Amp targets professional software developers and engineering teams who want an autonomous coding agent rather than an autocomplete assistant, particularly people working in large or complex codebases who benefit from repository-level context and parallel agents. Its terminal-first, multi-agent, orbs-based workflow appeals to power users and teams comfortable letting agents run with less supervision, while enterprise features (SSO, directory sync, admin controls, minimal data retention) target larger organizations.

Amp Frontier Corporation was created by spinning Amp out of Sourcegraph on December 2, 2025, rather than through a traditional priced funding round, and the company states it was already profitable at the time. Sourcegraph's existing backers, including Craft, Redpoint, Sequoia, Goldcrest, and a16z, continue to serve on both companies' boards. A specific standalone valuation or new investment amount for Amp has not been publicly confirmed, so any figures beyond the spin-out and its inherited investors should be treated as unverified.