PANews, December 19 - According to a report by Bloomberg, the startup /dev/agents, founded by former executives from Google and Stripe, recently completed a $56 million seed round of financing, with a valuation of $500 million. The financing was led by Index Ventures, with CapitalG, an investment fund under Alphabet, co-leading the round. Notable angel investors participating in the investment include Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora, and OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy.
/dev/agents plans to create a new generation of cloud operating systems that support AI agents, aimed at simplifying the development process and providing developers with a unified technical framework to promote the widespread application of AI agents. The core team of the company includes co-founders David Singleton, Hugo Barra, Ficus Kirkpatrick, and Nicholas Jitkoff, who have extensive experience in Android, AR/VR, and operating system development. The team is committed to developing interactive interfaces and AI agent computing infrastructure suitable for multiple devices to achieve seamless collaboration between users and AI agents.