19 August 2026

Liquid AI uses AI agents to build tokenizer software

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  • Liquid AI, a machine learning startup, deployed autonomous coding agents to construct toktoktok, a production tokenizer trainer (software that converts text into chunks for AI models to process).
  • The agents completed the task by following concrete specifications, handling multiple different types of work, and using external verification to check their own progress.

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