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Former Android Leaders Are Building an 'Operating System For AI Agents'

(Wednesday November 27, 2024 @05:40PM (BeauHD) from the what-to-expect dept.)


The Verge's Wes Davis reports:

> A new startup created by former Android leaders [1]aims to build an operating system for AI agents . Among them is Hugo Barra, Google's former VP of Android product management, who says the new company -- named "/dev/agents" -- will revisit the leaders' "Android roots."

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> "We can see the promise of AI agents, but as a developer, it's just too hard to build anything good," /dev/agents cofounder and CEO and Google's former Android VP of engineering David Singleton [2]told Bloomberg . He said the industry needs "an Android-like moment for AI."

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> The company is working on a cloud-based "next-gen operating system for AI agents" intended "for trusted agents to work with users across all of their devices," Singleton wrote in a post on X. He said that AI agents will "need new UI patterns, a reimagined privacy model, and a developer platform that makes it radically simpler to build useful agents."



[1] https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/27/24307525/android-leaders-dev-agents-ai-agent-operating-system-startup

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-26/former-google-stripe-executives-raise-56-million-for-ai-agent-startup



Former Android Leaders building AI Agents (Score:2)

by Roger W Moore ( 538166 )

This story title is definitely going to win this year's prize for "most conspiracy theories started".

AI Agents? (Score:2)

by viperidaenz ( 2515578 )

WTF is an AI Agent?

Re: (Score:2)

by OrangeTide ( 124937 )

spambots. almost literally the same thing.

Some of our former leaders are androids? (Score:2)

by 93 Escort Wagon ( 326346 )

Was Al Gore one of them? I've always had my suspicions...

don't be a humanist! (Score:2)

by OrangeTide ( 124937 )

Zuckerberg doesn't appreciate this kind of discrimination.

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