PYMNTS.com November 26, 2024
A group of tech veterans have reportedly raised $56 million to help construct an operating system for artificial intelligence (AI) agents.
As Bloomberg News reported Tuesday (Nov. 26), the new company — dubbed /dev/agents — is led by former Google and Stripe employees who worked on the Android operating system.
Their new seed funding round values /dev/agents at $500 million, the report added, citing a source familiar with the matter.
The report noted that several companies, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic among them, are creating AI agents.
For example, Microsoft has recently debuted tools to help healthcare organizations build customized AI agents for appointment scheduling, clinical trial matching, and patient triage.
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