Our mission is to build the foundational representation of the real world to enable persistent intelligence.

the problem

The problem we're solving

Modern AI models are powerful, but still constrained by limited context.

Enterprises store trillions of tokens across documents, videos, logs, databases, meetings, and internal systems. Traditional retrieval systems like RAG can surface relevant snippets, but they cannot understand how information connects across datasets, modalities, and time.

As a result, AI agents and agentic systems can answer questions about isolated pieces of data, but struggle to reason across the full organizational context needed for accuracy and reliability.

what graphon is

What Graphon is

Graphon is a persistent intelligence platform for multimodal data. It ingests videos, images, audio, and documents using patent-pending technology, goes deep into the data to automatically build an ontology, and gives AI the context it needs.

Because it goes that deep, you are not limited to searching for broad entities like “blue shirts.” You could ask for “blue shirts with five buttons, two pockets, and short sleeves,” and see exactly where each result came from.

The technology rests on graphons, a mathematical function for representing very large graphs. The founders developed the underlying research during their PhDs at Penn's GRASP Lab.

how we're different

How Graphon is differentthe third generation, after vector RAG and graph RAG.

generation one

Vector RAG

Scores each piece of data alone. It hands back a list of look-alikes and stops there.

what gets lost

Relations, history and order. Similar-looking pieces crowd out the real answer.

structure
None
schema
None
scope
One piece of data
serves
Retrieval only

generation two

Graph RAG

Scores a chunk plus its neighbors. Still a candidate list, built inside the radius you explored.

what gets lost

Anything humans didn’t map. Anything outside the radius, or that the schema didn’t foresee.

structure
Local
schema
Authored
scope
Chunk + neighbors
serves
Retrieval only

generation three

Graphon

Scores each piece of data by where it sits in the whole corpus. Search, analyze and find directly against the structure.

what gets lost

Nothing. Every fact keeps its place, its relations and its source.

structure
Global
schema
Inferred
scope
Whole corpus
serves
Finding and analysis

the benchmarks

Benchmarks

Graphon beats every existing memory system on accuracy and on cost, while being truly multimodal across video, audio and text. It sets a new cost-accuracy Pareto frontier.

ATM-Bench ↗

The first benchmark for multimodal, multi-source personalized referential memory QA over long time horizons (~4 years), with evidence-grounded retrieval and answering.

Graphon is #1 and #2 on the leaderboard.

ATM-Bench / memory systems better
QA score (%)Recall@10 (%)
Best run per system, from the public ATM-Bench leaderboard. The models behind each run and the full results are on the leaderboard. GraphonOthers
Source: atmbench.github.io/leaderboard ↗

team and vision

Team and vision

leadership

Graphon AI was founded by researchers and engineers with deep expertise in AI, machine learning systems, and large-scale enterprise infrastructure. The leadership team includes former researchers and engineers from Amazon, Meta, Google, Apple, PayPal, NVIDIA, Rivian, Samsung AI Center, NASA, and leading research institutions.

Graphon's three founders on a leather sofa

founders

Arbaaz Khan

Founder & CEO

5+ years as Senior Applied Scientist, serving 10M+ customers. PhD and Masters in ML and Robotics.

Clark Zhang

Co-Founder & CTO

5+ years as Senior Machine Learning Engineer. PhD and Masters in ML and Robotics.

Deepak Mishra

Co-Founder & COO

5+ years as AI VC. 5+ years as Data Scientist and Consultant.

advisors

Advisors

technical advisors

Jennifer Chayes

Dean, College of Computing, Data Science, and Society, UC Berkeley

Christian Borgs

Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley, Co-creator of graphon theory

Alejandro Ribeiro

Professor, University of Pennsylvania ESE Department

business advisors

Bask Iyer

Ex-CIO of VMWare, Honeywell, and Juniper Networks

Alan Fletcher

Ex-COO of Regrello (acquired by Salesforce)

Simon Mulcahy

Ex-Chief Innovation Officer of Salesforce

Akash Bhatia

Senior Partner and Global Tech Sector Lead at BCG

the team

The people building it

key facts

Key facts

Company
Graphon AI
Founded
July 2025
Founders
Arbaaz Khan (CEO), Clark Zhang (CTO), Deepak Mishra (COO)
Location
San Francisco
What it is
A persistent intelligence platform for multimodal data
Reads
Video, images, audio and documents
What it builds
An ontology of the data, built automatically
Technology
Patent-pending, built on graphons, a mathematical function for very large graphs
Research origin
PhD research at Penn's GRASP Lab
Deployment
Graphon cloud, your own VPC, or on device
Website
graphon.ai

questions

Frequently asked questions

Is Graphon a RAG system?

No. RAG retrieves snippets that look relevant to a question. Graphon builds a persistent, relational memory of how your content connects, across modalities and over time, so AI can reason across all of it instead of over isolated pieces.

What kinds of data does Graphon read?

Video, images, audio and documents. It reads the content itself, the frames, the speech and the pages, rather than the file names and labels around it, and every answer shows where it came from.

How is it different from building an ontology by hand?

Graphon builds the ontology automatically as it reads, down to details a team would not model by hand. So you can ask for "blue shirts with five buttons, two pockets and short sleeves," not just "blue shirts."

Where does my data live?

Wherever it is allowed to. Graphon runs in our cloud, inside your own VPC, or on a device next to where the data is made, with nothing leaving the building.

Is Graphon secure?

Graphon is SOC 2 Type II certified. The live control status, and the reports on request, are on the Graphon Trust Center.

How do I try it?

You can start free, with no card needed, or book a demo and the team will walk you through it.

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