Million
Million (Million Software, Inc.) is a San Francisco developer-tools company founded in 2023 by Aiden Bai, creator of Million.js, and backed by Y Combinator (W24).
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Million (Million Software, Inc.) is a San Francisco developer-tools company founded in 2023 by Aiden Bai, creator of Million.js, and backed by Y Combinator (W24). After building open-source React performance tools, it now builds evaluation environments and datasets for frontend coding agents (React Bench).
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