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Ax simplifies building AI applications in TypeScript. Developers simply describe their desired inputs and outputs, and the framework automatically handles complex prompt engineering. This allows for fast development of reliable, type-safe AI features, compatible with all major language models.

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Who It's For

Ax helps TypeScript developers build AI applications. It's for those creating reliable AI features fast, without complex prompt engineering. If you need to integrate large language models simply and efficiently, Ax makes AI development much easier.

What You Get

Build AI apps quicker and switch between 15+ AI providers easily. Ax automatically optimizes your AI programs, allowing them to improve with training examples. It includes production-ready features like streaming, error handling, and monitoring, making your applications robust from day one.

How It Works

Ax lets you describe your AI program's task by defining inputs and outputs in simple code. For example, tell it to classify a review's sentiment. Ax then automatically creates the best instructions for the AI model. This gives you accurate, type-safe results fast, without manual prompt writing, and works with any major LLM.

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Features & Capabilities

⚙️ Core AI Development

Multi-LLM Provider Support

Connects to 15+ major LLMs like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and more without code changes.

Automated Prompt Optimization

Automatically generates and optimizes prompts, eliminating manual prompt engineering.

Type-Safe Development

Provides full TypeScript support with auto-completion for reliable AI applications.

Intuitive Signature API

Define AI program inputs and outputs concisely using a fluent, type-safe API.

🤖 Advanced AI Capabilities

Agent Framework with Tools

Build AI agents capable of using external tools and performing complex tasks (ReAct pattern).

Multi-Modal Processing

Seamlessly process and analyze various data types including images, audio, and text within the same signature.

Enterprise RAG

Implements multi-hop retrieval augmented generation with built-in quality loops for robust information retrieval.

Complex Workflows (AxFlow)

Compose and manage intricate AI pipelines and systems using the AxFlow framework.

📈 AI Program Optimization

Automatic Program Optimization

Enhances AI program accuracy over time by training with examples, requiring no ML expertise.

Smart Prompt Tuning (MiPRO)

Uses advanced techniques like MiPRO for intelligent and automatic prompt tuning.

Multi-Objective Optimization (GEPA)

Optimizes AI programs across multiple objectives, such as quality versus speed, using GEPA and GEPA-Flow.

Agentic Context Engineering (ACE)

Utilizes ACE loops (generator, reflector, curator) to make agents smarter through iterative learning.

🛡️ Production & Reliability

Production-Ready Foundation

Includes built-in streaming, validation, and error handling for robust deployments from day one.

Real-time Streaming with Validation

Delivers real-time AI responses with integrated data validation for enhanced reliability.

Built-in Observability

Offers OpenTelemetry tracing for comprehensive monitoring and debugging of AI applications in production.

Zero Dependencies

Ensures a lightweight, fast, and reliable framework with minimal external dependencies.

Use Cases

Automating Structured Data Extraction from Unstructured Text

Businesses struggle to efficiently process large volumes of unstructured data like customer emails, reviews, or legal documents to extract key information. Ax empowers developers to define precise output schemas, allowing LLMs to automatically extract, type-validate, and structure data, dramatically accelerating data processing and analysis.

Customer ServiceFor: Software Developers

Developing Context-Aware AI Agents with External Tool Integration

Creating advanced AI agents that can perform complex tasks often requires them to interact with external systems, like APIs or databases, to retrieve real-time information or execute actions. Ax provides a robust agent framework that enables developers to easily define and integrate tools, allowing LLMs to intelligently decide when and how to call external functions for more dynamic and capable applications.

Enterprise SoftwareFor: AI Engineers

Streamlined Content Generation and Transformation

Developers often spend significant time on prompt engineering and output parsing when building features like sentiment analysis, translation, or content summarization with LLMs. Ax simplifies this by allowing developers to define clear, type-safe input-output signatures, enabling them to ship reliable content generation and transformation features across any LLM provider 10x faster.

Content MarketingFor: Frontend Developers

Analyzing and Extracting Insights from Multi-Modal Data

Businesses need to understand information presented across different modalities, such as images combined with text, for tasks like product categorization or content moderation. Ax enables developers to build applications that seamlessly process both image and text inputs within a single signature, allowing for the automatic extraction of structured descriptions, categories, and other relevant insights from complex multi-modal content.

E-commerceFor: AI Developers

Frequently asked questions

Ax is a machine learning system designed to guide and automate the experimentation process for researchers and developers. It helps determine how to optimize configurations and get the most out of processes efficiently. Ax is particularly useful for problems that are expensive to evaluate or where the number of evaluations must remain limited, such as machine learning experiments, A/B tests, and costly simulations.

Developers and researchers often face challenges when configuring systems with many possible options—whether these are learning rates, hyperparameters, infrastructure "magic numbers," compiler flags, or design parameters in physical engineering tasks. Selecting and tuning these configurations can be time-consuming, resource-intensive, and significantly affect the quality of user experiences. Ax automates this optimization process to help find the best configurations more efficiently.

Ax can optimize continuous-valued configurations (such as integer or floating point values), discrete configurations (such as variants in A/B tests), or mixed spaces using techniques like Bayesian optimization. This versatility makes it suitable for a wide range of applications across different domains.

Ax offers several distinctive capabilities including an Expressive API that handles complex search spaces, multiple objectives, constraints on parameters and outcomes, and noisy observations, while also supporting suggesting multiple designs to evaluate in parallel (both synchronously and asynchronously) and early-stopping of evaluations. It provides Strong Performance Out of the Box by abstracting away optimization details with sensible defaults, enabling practitioners to leverage advanced techniques otherwise only accessible to optimization experts. Ax utilizes State-of-the-Art Methods by leveraging Bayesian optimization algorithms implemented in BoTorch to deliver strong performance across various problem classes. It also offers Flexibility, being highly configurable and allowing researchers to plug in novel optimization algorithms, models, and experimentation flows, and is Production Ready, offering automation and orchestration features along with robust error handling for real-world deployment at scale.

Yes, Ax is production-ready and designed for real-world deployment at scale. It includes automation, orchestration features, and robust error handling to support enterprise-level applications.

Rather than manually testing different configurations one at a time, Ax uses machine learning to intelligently guide the experimentation process, reducing the time and resources required to find optimal configurations.

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