MythWorx, a Dallas-based artificial intelligence startup pioneering next-generation reasoning architectures, announced it has raised $5 million in seed funding at a $100 million valuation. The funding round was led by Eagle Venture Fund IV, Eagle Freedom Fund I, and Eagle Freedom Fund II, with participation from several prominent angel investors. The valuation reflects strong investor confidence in the company’s innovative AGI approach, which achieves unprecedented performance with dramatically lower compute and power requirements.
At the core of MythWorx’s success is its proprietary model, Echo Ego v2, which recently achieved a perfect 100% score on the ARC-AGI-1 benchmark—without any pre-training and using only 208 watts of power. The result represents a significant milestone in the pursuit of accurate artificial general intelligence (AGI). Echo Ego v2 outperforms traditional large language models (LLMs) by completing tasks up to eight times faster while consuming only a tenth of the power, setting a new benchmark for efficiency and intelligence in AI systems.
Unlike current LLMs that rely heavily on pattern recognition, memorization, or chain-of-thought prompting, MythWorx’s architecture is designed around true reasoning principles modeled after human cognition. The company’s brain-inspired approach eliminates the need for massive pretraining datasets or repeated retrials to refine output accuracy. The model’s capabilities have been validated through top-tier benchmarking, including the MMLU-Pro test, where it outperformed models such as DeepSeek-R1 without prior fine-tuning.
The newly secured funding will accelerate MythWorx’s hiring, expand product offerings, and scale its go-to-market initiatives. The company plans to license its AGI capabilities to major technology companies, government agencies, and defense sectors seeking advanced, efficient AI solutions capable of autonomous reasoning and decision-making.
MythWorx’s “black swan” moment for AI comes amid increasing demand for models that combine speed, interpretability, and minimal energy use. Its unique ability to deliver high performance with low computational overhead positions it as a potential disruptor in the race toward practical AGI. The company aims to leverage this momentum to form key partnerships and joint ventures across industries, to operationalize next-generation AI technologies.
KEY QUOTES:
“This funding milestone validates the strength of our technology and the market’s understanding and support of our new brain-modeled approach to AI. Our mission is to deliver AI that is smarter, faster and dramatically more efficient than traditional LLMs, to redefine what’s possible with true reasoning capabilities. And we’ve delivered — with our model representing a ‘black swan’ moment for AI.”
Jason Williamson, CEO, MythWorx
“This financing allows us to move forward quickly with our go-to-market strategy of licensing our unique AGI capability to big tech, government, and Department of War sectors that have long anticipated the advent of true reasoning.”
Wade Myers, Co-Founder and Chairman, MythWorx
“We’re thrilled to lead this seed round and partner with MythWorx. Their breakthrough technology has the potential to redefine AI, and we believe their exceptional team has the vision and execution capabilities to build a category-defining company. We couldn’t be more excited to support them at this early stage of their journey.”
Wes Lyons, General Partner, Eagle Venture Fund
