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  "markdown": "Co-founder, Amp.\n\nBeyang Liu co-founded Sourcegraph with Quinn Slack in 2013, building code search and code intelligence tools for large codebases. When Amp, the coding agent started inside Sourcegraph, was spun out in December 2025, he became one of its founders and kept his seat on Sourcegraph's board.\n\n## What Beyang builds\n\n- [Amp](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amp.md), graded C, 57.1/100, in Agent harnesses. Amp is a closed-source coding agent from Amp Frontier Corporation, with a terminal CLI, web, macOS and iOS apps and cloud machines called orbs. An execute mode with JSON streaming and TypeScript and Python SDKs let programs run it. Co-founder, Amp, researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Quinn Slack](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/quinn-slack/), Co-founder, Amp\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Beyang Liu?\n\nBeyang Liu co-founded Sourcegraph with Quinn Slack in 2013, building code search and code intelligence tools for large codebases. When Amp, the coding agent started inside Sourcegraph, was spun out in December 2025, he became one of its founders and kept his seat on Sourcegraph's board.\n\n### What does Amp Frontier Corporation make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Amp from Amp Frontier Corporation. Amp is a closed-source coding agent from Amp Frontier Corporation, with a terminal CLI, web, macOS and iOS apps and cloud machines called orbs. An execute mode with JSON streaming and TypeScript and Python SDKs let programs run it.\n\n### How are Beyang's tools graded?\n\nAmp is graded C, 57.1 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://ampcode.com/about\n- https://ampcode.com/news/amp-inc\n- https://ampcode.com/news/amp-frontier-corporation\n- https://sourcegraph.com/blog/why-sourcegraph-and-amp-are-becoming-independent-companies\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sourcegraph\n- https://ampcode.com/press-kit\n- https://ampcode.com/docs/markdown/support/getting-help\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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