AI agents

AI agent startup /dev/agents has raised a massive $56M seed round at a $500M valuation

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Many startups and large tech companies are building AI agents or programs that can handle multi-step tasks without user supervision. Once available, these agents will need to collaborate with each other to complete complex jobs, such as booking and paying for flights, hotels, and excursions. /dev/agents, a new company started by former Google executives who […]

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Marc Benioff says it’s ‘crazy talk’ that AI will hurt Salesforce, wants a billion AI agents in a year

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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says the next big thing for enterprise software, particularly Salesforce, is AI agents – or software bots that will do limited tasks on their own taking those tasks off of human workers.  “What if your workforce had no limits? Now, that is a question we could not ask in the last

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AI coding assistants can help startups develop products, seed VCs believe

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By now, there’s hardly a coder in the world who isn’t using an AI copilot in some way. But using GitHub Copilot or Cursor.AI to ask technical questions and get debugging help could be just the beginning. AI coding may one day involve agents that can write the programs themselves based on a natural language

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Marc Benioff warns that AI, while useful, is overhyped and partly blames Microsoft

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One of the tech industry’s biggest hype men, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, wants you to know that he is psyched about generative AI, but even he doesn’t think it can do what its biggest proponents say it will do. And he (not surprisingly) blames Microsoft. A month after Salesforce’s enormous tech conference, Dreamforce, during which

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Career Karma founders launch OutRival to help companies build AI agents

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Ruben Harris and Timur Meyster, the founders of the upskilling platform Career Karma, announced today the launch of the company OutRival, which offers a service that hosts and lets businesses build their own customer service agents to take on customer interactions. AI agent companies are hot right now, and AI is one of the only

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Convergence AI played with agents ‘for years’ until raising $12M to give them long-term memory

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Marvin Purtorab, CEO of new startup Convergence, and co-founder Andy Toulis (CTO) met while they both worked at Shopify on recommender systems and AI assistants. They both joined Cohere, the AI platform for enterprises, before coming up with their startup idea only a few months ago. “I mean, to be honest, we left [Cohere] because

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Workera’s CEO was mentored by Andrew Ng. Now he wants an AI agent to mentor you

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Kian Katanforoosh has one of the best mentors in the AI world: renowned researcher Andrew Ng, who also served as his graduate school advisor at Stanford. The two went on to create Stanford’s deep learning program, and now, Ng serves as Chairman of Katanforoosh’s startup, Workera. Ng has been a meaningful guide in Katanforoosh’s career,

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