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Adept, which aims to build AI systems that can understand and automate any software process, emerges from stealth with $65M led by Greylock and Addition

Adept is an ML research and product lab building general intelligence … Ben G / Ben Goldhaber's Newsletter : April 2022 BenGoldhaber(.com) Newsletter Tweets: Scott Belsky / @scottbelsky : developing AI models to use our existing everyday software tools (and underlying APIs) on our behalf is a fascinating approach for near-term productivity gains. https://www.adept.ai/... congrats @jluan and team. https://twitter.com/... Reid Hoffman / @reidhoffman : Adept takes a different path from other AGI companies. Rather than building general intelligence to take over valuable tasks, they're building AI tools that empower humans to get stuff done. David Luan / @jluan : A bunch of top ML folks from Google, DeepMind, OpenAI, etc have come together to build Adept! It's a pleasure to be working with this kind and extremely talent-dense crew, incl. the folks who invented Transformer. We're doing something a bit different... (thread) https://twitter.com/... Saam Motamedi / @saammotamedi : 6/ The next phase of AI will come from building products that people use today - but that also contain the seeds of generality for the future. Adept is doing exactly this, and we're excited to bring Greylock's expertise in enterprise products to bear.

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  • @scottbelsky Scott Belsky on x
    developing AI models to use our existing everyday software tools (and underlying APIs) on our behalf is a fascinating approach for near-term productivity gains. https://www.adept.ai/... congrats @jluan and team. https://twitter.com/...
  • @reidhoffman Reid Hoffman on x
    Adept takes a different path from other AGI companies. Rather than building general intelligence to take over valuable tasks, they're building AI tools that empower humans to get stuff done.
  • @jluan David Luan on x
    A bunch of top ML folks from Google, DeepMind, OpenAI, etc have come together to build Adept! It's a pleasure to be working with this kind and extremely talent-dense crew, incl. the folks who invented Transformer. We're doing something a bit different... (thread) https://twitter.…
  • @saammotamedi Saam Motamedi on x
    6/ The next phase of AI will come from building products that people use today - but that also contain the seeds of generality for the future. Adept is doing exactly this, and we're excited to bring Greylock's expertise in enterprise products to bear.