ZeroEntropy announced it had been acquired by Notion; the whole team joined Notion, models were open-sourced under Apache 2.0, and products were slated to sunset on 2026-09-04.
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Updated Jul 30, 2026
ZeroEntropy is a San Francisco-based AI training and inference company that builds specialized retrieval infrastructure and task-specific models for production AI systems, with an emphasis on low-latency, high-accuracy rerankers, embedders, and custom models. The company was acquired by Notion on July 24, 2026; its models were open-sourced under Apache 2.0 and products were scheduled to sunset on September 4, 2026.
Primary product
An API and model suite for AI retrieval infrastructure, centered on rerankers (zerank-2), embeddings (zembed-1), and end-to-end retrieval pipelines.
Founded
2024
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
AI infrastructure / information retrieval / developer tools
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Offices
Business model
Leadership
Co-Founder and CEO
Co-Founder and CTO
Founding Research Engineer
Amine Raji
Angel Investor
Investors
Small, dense team with an intense technical culture focused on math, competitiveness, and numerical rigor; the company described itself as scrappy, rigorous, and product-led, with an emphasis on building core technology rather than merely using it.
Compensation
Public job postings showed roughly $80K-$200K base salary ranges plus equity for full-time roles and $5K-$10K/month for a summer internship; some roles also indicated equity ranges.
Benefits
Pricing
Usage-based API pricing per token / per volume, plus pay-as-you-go search infrastructure pricing and enterprise/on-prem licensing.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
ZeroEntropy announced it had been acquired by Notion; the whole team joined Notion, models were open-sourced under Apache 2.0, and products were slated to sunset on 2026-09-04.
SourceZeroEntropy announced existing products would be sunset on September 4, 2026 and new signups disabled after the Notion acquisition.
SourceNotion · Jul 2026
Notion announced it had acquired ZeroEntropy; ZeroEntropy’s team was joining Notion and its models were being open-sourced under Apache 2.0, with products sunset on September 4, 2026.
ZeroEntropy Blog · Jul 2026
ZeroEntropy confirmed its acquisition by Notion, said new signups were disabled, and announced product support until September 4, 2026 plus migration guidance for customers.
ZeroEntropy Blog · Feb 2026
Case study describing Assembled as a customer using ZeroEntropy reranking in production.
ZeroEntropy Blog · Jul 2025
ZeroEntropy announced a $4.2M seed round led by Initialized Capital and stated total capital raised was approximately $4.4M.
TechCrunch · Jul 2025
TechCrunch reported on ZeroEntropy’s seed financing and identified Ghita Houir Alami and Nicholas Pipitone as co-founders.