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Frontier AI models, agent infrastructure, and the platform powering the next generation of intelligent applications.

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The router is the registry

Hanzo Cloud has no checked-in OpenAPI file. The live route table is the source, projected three ways, and a bijection test fails the build if any projection drifts. 1,362 operations across 963 paths, generated per process at request time.

Half a Million RPS on a GB10: The Network Was the Bottleneck, Not the Box

We set out to see how fast our cloud data plane could go on an NVIDIA GB10. The answer taught us more about NIC receive queues than about our own code — and it more than doubled our throughput on the same wire.

Introducing Enso — one API, routed to the best frontier intelligence

Enso is Hanzo's learned router: no single frontier model leads every benchmark, so Enso routes each request to the model most likely to win it — and learns from your feedback as it goes. Microsecond routing on a CPU, a transparent per-request meter, and a 1% fee that pays for itself. Here is how it works, the measured results, and the cost-transparency angle a monolith cannot offer.

Route every prompt to the right model — and cut AI cloud costs by up to 90%

Hanzo Router places each request on the cheapest model that can still serve it — reuse a local model for free, load one that fits, or fall through to cloud. Here's the idea, what it feels like in production (qualitative), and the honest cost arithmetic (quantitative) — no fabricated benchmark.

Introducing Hanzo Datastore: a post-quantum-ready OLAP engine

A ClickHouse-derived columnar warehouse, rebuilt around storage/compute separation on Hanzo S3, profile-guided and link-time optimized to roughly half the memory, with gRPC stripped out and a path to leaderless post-quantum coordination.

Killing Raft: from ZooKeeper consensus to Lux Quasar, natively

How Hanzo Datastore replaces the NuRaft engine under ClickHouse Keeper with Lux Quasar — post-quantum, leaderless consensus linked directly into the C++ server — while keeping the ZooKeeper API that replication speaks.

Proof of AI: An Open-Source Cloud That Pays the Developers It Runs On

Hanzo Cloud is built on Proof of AI — deterministic inference any validator can re-verify on-chain — and on a commitment that 25% of what the cloud earns flows back to the open-source developers whose code it runs.

accel: One Dispatch Fabric for GPU, CUDA, Metal, and FPGA

LP-138 lands. accel is a capability-negotiated dispatch layer so accelerated crypto, ZK, and FHE are one codebase across runtimes.

Hanzo Brain: Local-First Knowledge Graph for Agents

A single SQLite file your agent reads from every runtime. Zero LLM round-trips for graph ops, FTS5 plus vector plus typed-edge extraction at write time.

QZMQ: Quantum-Safe ZeroMQ for the Hanzo and Lux Stacks

A hybrid X25519 + ML-KEM-768 transport that drops in where CurveZMQ used to live. PQ by default, two backends, every ZMQ pattern supported.

Zen: 1T+ Parameter MoE Architecture

Hanzo's flagship LLM — a 1.04 trillion parameter Mixture of Experts model fused from top language models, with distributed training and on-chain model attestation.

Hanzo Ships Formal Proofs for AI Agent Infrastructure

Machine-checked Lean 4 proofs for agent safety, MCP protocol, PoAI consensus, and platform operations

BitDelta: Serving 14 Zen Models from One GPU Cluster

How BitDelta's 1-bit delta compression lets us serve 14 Zen model variants from shared GPU infrastructure — the math, the architecture, and the tradeoffs.

From Commerce AI to Frontier Models: Hanzo's Decade of Infrastructure

Twelve years of building AI infrastructure — from a real-time recommendation engine in 2014 to 94+ frontier models and a post-quantum blockchain in 2026. The technical story of how we got here.

Enterprise Cloud Without Enterprise Pricing: 96 vCPUs at $3,999/Month

Hanzo Network launches Business through Ultra enterprise cloud tiers — dedicated CPU machines from 8 to 96 vCPUs with 71–81% cost advantage over hyperscaler equivalents.

The Complete AI Agent Stack: Models, Compute, and Tools in One Platform

Hanzo AI introduces the first platform combining 100+ AI models, cloud compute, GPU access, and 260+ MCP tools under a single developer account.

H100 GPUs at $3.48/Hour — 72% Cheaper Than AWS

Hanzo Bot opens on-demand H100 GPU access for AI agent developers at $3.48/hr — 72% less than AWS equivalent pricing.

Run AI Agents for $5/Month: Introducing Hanzo Bot

Hanzo Bot launches with the cheapest AI agent hosting in the industry — starting at $5/mo with free credit, integrated access to 100+ models, and H100 GPUs at $3.48/hr.

Hanzo Network: 10–54% Cheaper Than DigitalOcean, Lightsail, and Vultr

Hanzo Network launches a developer cloud that undercuts DigitalOcean, AWS Lightsail, Vultr, and Linode by 10–54% — with zero egress fees, DDoS protection, and consistent global pricing included.

AI Transcription 85% Cheaper Than OpenAI: Multimodal Pricing for Bot Developers

Hanzo Bot delivers speech-to-text at $0.0009/minute — 85% cheaper than OpenAI Whisper — plus image generation at the industry's lowest price of $0.00013/step.

Hanzo Pricing Deep Dive: Every Model, Every Plan, Every Comparison

The comprehensive breakdown of Hanzo pricing across AI models, cloud compute, GPU access, and tools — with head-to-head comparisons against every major competitor.

One API for Every AI Model: Introducing the Hanzo AI Gateway

Hanzo AI launches the industry's first zero-markup multi-provider AI gateway — one API key for 100+ models from every major provider, plus 14 proprietary Zen models.

Zen4 Coder: 480B Parameters, 92% Fewer Active — The MoE Code Model

Hanzo AI launches Zen4 Coder, a 480B-parameter Mixture of Experts code model that activates only 35B parameters per token — delivering frontier code intelligence at a fraction of the compute cost.

Zero Egress Fees: The Cloud Pricing Practice That Needs to Die

Egress fees are a tax on success. Hanzo Network includes bandwidth at every tier — from 500 GB on the $5 plan to 120 TB on Ultra — with zero overage charges.

Now Available: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B and Mercury 2 — Efficient MoE and Frontier Reasoning

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B (Apache 2.0, multimodal MoE) and Inception's Mercury 2 are now available on the Hanzo AI Gateway.

Now Available: Gemini 3.1 Pro — Google's 1M-Token Reasoning Model

Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro is now available on the Hanzo AI Gateway — featuring a 1M-token context window and multimodal reasoning across text, images, audio, video, and code.

Zen4: Abliterated AI Models for Every Scale

Announcing the full Zen4 family: mini (4B) through ultra (1T MoE), all abliterated. Eight models covering every scale from edge to cloud, with no refusal behavior and full capability access.

Now Available: Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Qwen3.5-397B — Multimodal MoE at Scale

Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Qwen3.5-397B-A17B are now available on the Hanzo AI Gateway — Anthropic's latest alongside the largest open-source multimodal MoE model.

Now Available: ByteDance Seed 2.0 and Qwen3-Coder-Next — Frontier Reasoning and Code Agents

ByteDance's Seed 2.0 Pro and Alibaba's Qwen3-Coder-Next are now available on the Hanzo AI Gateway — frontier multimodal reasoning and open-source coding agents.

Now Available: GLM-5 (744B) and MiniMax M2.5 (230B) — Two Open-Source Giants

GLM-5 and MiniMax M2.5 — two of the largest open-source models ever released — are now available through the Hanzo AI Gateway.

Now Available: Google Gemma 3n and Gemma 3 270M — On-Device AI Goes Multimodal

Google's Gemma 3n (multimodal on-device) and Gemma 3 270M (smallest Gemma ever) are now available on the Hanzo AI Gateway.

Introducing Zen4: Open Foundation Models from 4B to 1T+

Zen4 is a complete lineup of open AI models spanning from 4B to over 1 trillion parameters, featuring consumer, coder, and ultra tiers.

Now Available: Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.3 Codex on the Hanzo Gateway

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 and OpenAI's GPT-5.3 Codex are now available through the Hanzo AI Gateway — same API, same key, zero markup.

Hanzo Browser Extension: AI in Every Tab

Bringing AI capabilities to your browser - summarize pages, answer questions, and automate workflows.

Hanzo Cap Table: Equity Management for Startups

Introducing Hanzo Cap Table — equity management, scenario modeling, and 409A readiness without Carta's price tag.

Hanzo Dataroom: Secure Document Sharing with Analytics

Introducing Hanzo Dataroom — secure document sharing with per-page analytics, watermarking, and granular access controls for fundraising and M&A.

Hanzo ML Platform: End-to-End Machine Learning Infrastructure

Announcing the unified Hanzo ML Platform — training, serving, pipelines, feature store, model registry, and evaluation in one integrated system.

Zen Reranker: Neural Reranking at 30x Compression

Zen Reranker delivers 7680-dimensional neural reranking with a 31.87x BitDelta compression ratio, designed for RAG pipelines and integrated with Hanzo and Zoo decentralized search networks.

Hanzo Dev: AI Coding Agent for Your Terminal

Hanzo Dev launches — an AI coding agent that lives in your terminal, understands your codebase, and writes production-quality code.

Zen VL: Vision-Language Models with Function Calling

Zen VL is a family of vision-language models at 4B, 8B, and 30B -- each with instruct and agent variants -- supporting OCR in 32 languages, GUI navigation, spatial grounding, and native function calling with visual context.

Zen Artist: Image Generation Reimagined

Introducing Zen Artist - our multimodal image generation model with unprecedented control and quality.

Zen Omni: Unified Multimodal AI

Zen Omni is a 30B MoE unified multimodal model with Thinker-Talker architecture, handling text, vision, and audio in a single model with real-time speech-to-speech at under 300ms latency.

MCP: 260 Tools for AI Models

How we built 260+ tools using Model Context Protocol, enabling AI models to interact with the world.

Zen Designer: 235B Vision-Language Model

Zen Designer is a 235B MoE vision-language model with 22B active parameters, supporting image analysis, video understanding, OCR in 32 languages, and native design reasoning.

Zen Max: 671B Reasoning Model

Zen Max is a 671B MoE reasoning model with 384 experts, 256K context, and abliterated base weights -- achieving AIME 2025 99.1%, SWE-Bench 71.3%, and BrowseComp 60.2%.

One Billion Dollars in Client Revenue

Hanzo AI has driven over $1 billion in cumulative revenue for our clients through AI-powered marketing and commerce infrastructure.

Zen Coder: Code AI from 4B to 480B

Zen Coder is a family of code-specialized models spanning 4B edge to 480B frontier, with 128K context, extended thinking up to 512K tokens, MCP integration, and support for 100+ programming languages.

Hanzo Operative: Computer Use for AI Agents

Introducing Hanzo Operative — enabling AI agents to use computers like humans: screen capture, mouse, keyboard, and application interaction.

Hanzo Flow: Visual AI Workflow Builder

Hanzo Flow launches — a visual drag-and-drop builder for complex AI workflows. Connect models, tools, and APIs without writing integration code.

Zen Guard: Multilingual AI Safety Classification

Zen Guard is an 8B multilingual safety classifier covering 119 languages and 9 harm categories, with a three-tier severity system and 5ms/token streaming latency.

Introducing Hanzo Console: Unified LLM Observability

Hanzo Console launches — a unified development environment for observing, debugging, and optimizing LLM applications across all providers.

Zen Embedding: #1 Multilingual Retrieval

Zen Embedding reaches #1 on the MTEB multilingual leaderboard with a 70.58 score, supporting 100+ languages and Matryoshka representation learning across four dimension sizes.

Hanzo Experiments: Feature Flags and A/B Testing

Introducing Hanzo Experiments — feature flags, A/B testing, and progressive rollouts with statistical rigor.

Zen Nano: 0.6B Edge AI Model

Zen Nano is a 0.6B on-device AI model built for mobile and embedded deployment, achieving 44K tokens/sec on M3 Max with a 40K context window.

Zen Musician: AI-Generated Music That Sounds Human

Introducing Zen Musician - our AI music generation model that creates original compositions in any style.

Jin 2.0: The Next Generation of Multimodal AI

Announcing Jin 2.0, a major upgrade to our unified multimodal AI architecture with expanded capabilities and improved performance.

Case Study: Keek — AI-Powered Social Media Transformation

How Hanzo integrated AI infrastructure into the Keek social platform — content recommendation, multimodal moderation, and creator tools processing 12M daily content items.

ACI: The AI Compute Infrastructure Network

Introducing ACI, a decentralized network for AI compute that enables trustless, verifiable AI inference.

Zen Video: Generative Video at Scale

Introducing Zen Video - our generative video model for creating high-quality video content from text and images.

Hanzo Partners with Personas Social to Power Keek's AI

Hanzo AI partners with Personas Social Inc. to integrate AI-powered features into the Keek social platform.

Hanzo Notebooks: Managed Jupyter with GPU Access

Introducing Hanzo Notebooks — managed Jupyter workspaces with on-demand GPU access and pre-installed ML frameworks.

Candle: Rust-Native Machine Learning

Introducing our investment in Candle, the Rust ML framework powering Hanzo's next-generation inference.

Hanzo Sign: Electronic Signatures Without the Enterprise Tax

Introducing Hanzo Sign — legally binding electronic signatures with audit trails, templates, and API access at a fraction of DocuSign's price.

Hanzo CX: Complete Customer Experience Platform

Introducing Hanzo CX — a unified customer experience platform with omnichannel inbox, AI-assisted responses, and full conversation history.

Zen Coder: Code Generation That Actually Works

Building Zen Coder - our code generation model trained on real software engineering workflows.

Zen Dub: Voice Cloning and AI Dubbing

How we built Zen Dub - an AI system for voice cloning and automatic dubbing in 100+ languages.

LLM Infrastructure: Running AI at Scale

How we built infrastructure to serve billions of LLM requests for commerce applications.

Hanzo Auto: AI Workflow Automation

Introducing Hanzo Auto — AI-powered workflow automation with 280+ integrations and a visual builder.

Hanzo CRM: Modern Customer Relationship Management

Introducing Hanzo CRM — a modern, AI-enhanced CRM for teams that want to close deals, not manage software.

Zen Agent: Building AI That Actually Does Things

Introducing Zen Agent - our framework for building AI systems that can take action in the real world.

Zen Integration: AI That Follows Your Rules

Introducing Zen, our system for ensuring AI follows business rules, compliance requirements, and brand guidelines.

Hanzo Insights: Product Analytics That Respects Privacy

Introducing Hanzo Insights — product analytics with event tracking, funnels, cohorts, and session replay, without selling user data.

Hanzo Edge: High-Performance API Gateway

Introducing Hanzo Edge — a high-performance API gateway with sub-millisecond routing, rate limiting, and authentication at the edge.

Gym: Distributed Training for the Rest of Us

Introducing Gym - our platform for distributed AI model training that turns the world's GPUs into a supercomputer.

Jin: Unified Multimodal AI Architecture

Introducing Jin, our unified architecture for multimodal AI that powers the next generation of Hanzo intelligence.

LLM Inference at the Edge: Our llama.cpp Journey

How we brought large language models to edge devices using llama.cpp and what we learned along the way.

Hanzo Observability: Metrics, Logs, and Traces in One Platform

Launching the Hanzo Observability stack — unified metrics, logs, and distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry-native ingestion.

hanzo.vim: AI-Powered Vim for Terminal Purists

Bringing AI capabilities to Vim without sacrificing the terminal-native experience.

Identity NFTs: Portable Commerce Identity

Introducing Identity NFTs: blockchain-based portable identity for commerce.

Open Source at Hanzo: Building in Public

Announcing Hanzo's open-source strategy — why we're open-sourcing our core infrastructure and introducing revenue sharing for contributors.

HKE: Hanzo Kubernetes Engine

Launching HKE — managed Kubernetes that eliminates the operational burden without limiting what you can do.

Building Our ML Framework

Why we built a custom ML framework and what we learned along the way.

Case Study: Bellabeat — Scaling a Women's Health Platform

How Hanzo helped Bellabeat scale their women's health wearable platform to $35M in projected revenue through CMO/CTO services, marketing automation, and data analytics.

Hanzo Search: Full-Text Search That Just Works

Introducing Hanzo Search — full-text search with typo tolerance, faceting, and sub-millisecond query times.

Agent SDK: Build Intelligent Assistants

Introducing the Hanzo Agent SDK: tools for building intelligent commerce assistants.

Hanzo Platform: Git Push to Production

Launching Hanzo Platform — a PaaS that deploys your code from git push to production with zero DevOps configuration.

Multi-Modal AI for Commerce

How we are combining vision, language, and structured data for next-generation commerce AI.

Hanzo Tasks and Queues: Durable Background Execution

Launching Hanzo Tasks and Queues — durable workflow execution and message queues for reliable background processing.

Case Study: Damon Motorcycles — 500x ROI Campaign

How Hanzo delivered a 500x ROI marketing campaign for Damon Motorcycles, generating a 230% increase in qualified leads for their electric motorcycles.

The Context Layer: Our Early Work on Multi-Model State Management

How we built a context management protocol for multi-model AI pipelines — early research that shaped how we think about AI state.

Hanzo KMS: Secrets Management Done Right

Introducing Hanzo KMS — end-to-end encrypted secrets management with environment sync, rotation, and audit trails.

Hanzo Storage: S3-Compatible Object Storage

Launching Hanzo Storage — S3-compatible object storage with integrated CDN and no egress fees.

Case Study: Casper — Enterprise Blockchain from Concept to Mainnet

How Hanzo helped Casper Labs architect and launch an enterprise-grade blockchain — from the Rust pivot to mainnet launch and DEVxDAO founding.

EVM Compatibility: Bridging Ecosystems

Lux Network achieves full EVM compatibility with the C-Chain, enabling seamless migration of Ethereum dApps.

Hanzo SQL: Managed PostgreSQL with Zero Ops

Launching Hanzo SQL — managed PostgreSQL with automatic scaling, high availability, and zero operational overhead.

Introducing the Hanzo Agent Framework

Announcing the Hanzo Agent Framework: building blocks for intelligent automation in commerce.

Hanzo Base: Backend-as-a-Service for Modern Applications

Introducing Hanzo Base — a complete backend-as-a-service with database, auth, storage, and realtime capabilities.

Hanzo Cloud: Managed Infrastructure for Commerce

Introducing Hanzo Cloud: fully managed commerce infrastructure with enterprise-grade reliability.

Hanzo DNS and Networking: Programmable Infrastructure

Launching Hanzo DNS and Networking — programmable DNS with service discovery and zero-trust virtual networks.

Webhooks: Real-Time Event Delivery

Announcing Hanzo Webhooks: reliable, secure, real-time event delivery for your integrations.

Case Study: Unikoin Gold — 120,000 ETH Token Launch

How Hanzo helped Unikrn raise 120,000 ETH in their token launch, combining blockchain infrastructure with regulatory compliance across 15+ jurisdictions.

The Hanzo SDK Ecosystem

Announcing official SDKs for JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Go, and PHP, plus the new SDK development kit.

Hanzo Functions: Serverless Compute with Zero Cold Starts

Introducing Hanzo Functions — serverless compute with zero cold starts, built for event-driven commerce workloads.

The Hanzo API Gateway

Introducing the Hanzo API Gateway: unified access, better security, and improved developer experience.

Co-Founding the First SEC-Approved Crowdfunding Token

Hanzo co-founded the first SEC-approved crowdfunding token offering, bridging traditional crowdfunding with tokenized securities.

ML-Powered Analytics: From Dashboards to Decisions

How we are using machine learning to transform analytics from passive reporting to active decision support.

Hanzo Payments: Unified Payment Processing for Global Commerce

Launching Hanzo Payments — unified payment processing with intelligent routing, fraud detection, and multi-currency support.

Checkout 2.0: Conversion Through Simplicity

Announcing Checkout 2.0, our redesigned checkout experience built for maximum conversion.

Hanzo Identity: Authentication That Scales with Your Business

Introducing Hanzo Identity — enterprise-grade authentication and access management built for commerce platforms.

Commerce AI: What We Learned in 2017

Lessons from a year of building and deploying AI systems for commerce.

42 Million in Client Sales: What Techstars Taught Us

Reflecting on Techstars Demo Day and $42M in client sales generated through the Hanzo platform.

Hanzo Joins Techstars '17

Hanzo has been selected for Techstars 2017, accelerating our mission to power intelligent commerce.

Introducing the Hanzo Platform

Crowdstart evolves into Hanzo: a complete commerce platform for the modern era.

AI-Powered Product Recommendations

How we built collaborative filtering and content-based recommendations into the Crowdstart platform.

Hanzo Analytics: Real-Time Intelligence for Commerce

Launching Hanzo Analytics — real-time behavioral intelligence for commerce teams who need answers now, not tomorrow.

Earle: Genetic Algorithms for Marketing Optimization

Introducing Earle, our genetic algorithm system for evolving high-performing marketing campaigns.

Real-Time Analytics: From Data to Decisions

How we built real-time analytics into Crowdstart and what we learned about data-driven commerce.

Astle.js: Reactive Commerce Components

Releasing Astle.js, our open-source library for building reactive commerce interfaces.

Cloud-Native Commerce: Why Architecture Matters

How we built Crowdstart as a cloud-native platform from day one, and why this matters for commerce.

Introducing Crowdstart: Commerce for the Crowdfunding Era

Announcing Crowdstart, a new platform enabling creators to build sustainable businesses from successful crowdfunding campaigns.

PubSub: The Event-Driven Foundation

How we built a publish-subscribe system that became the nervous system of our entire platform.

KV: Distributed State for the Real World

Building a key-value store that could handle the chaos of distributed systems - our second foundational project.

The Datastore: Where It All Began

The first building block of what would become Hanzo - a flexible datastore designed for the next generation of applications.