Ex-Meta and Google Executives Launch $50M AI Startup to Build Next-Gen AI Operating System

Former Meta Platforms (META, Financial) & Alphabet (GOOG, Financial) executives have launched a new venture to build an operating system for an AI agent. A company called /dev/agents has declared that it has obtained $56 million from investors, including CapitalG and Index Ventures. The key people involved in this business are David Singleton, previously VP of engineering at Google, and other former Meta-associated people like Hugo Barra, Ficus Kirkpatrick, and Nicholas Jitkoff. They seek to create a core control structure for AI agents that will be easy to integrate into AI applications by offering developers the tools to start creating said applications and controls.

The startup’s ultimate goal is to build an environment enabling AI agents to communicate with the user across or on devices like it’s done with other people. This effort is considered a significant step towards the greater feasibility of AI agents as real-life helpers useful in everyday life, capable of accomplishing several tasks simultaneously, for instance, traveling or planning an occasion with voice and natural language interface. However, /dev/agents compete with other established AI challengers as Google sets for Project Astra and Anthropic’s AI solutions.

?As AI advances and deciphers itself as a new frontier of software and computer science, /dev/agents aspire to be an architecture that could foster growth to modern and future interpersonal and software development.

This article first appeared on GuruFocus.