Jaden Schaefer

But obviously, this is a very cracked team that has worked at a lot of these big AI firms.

And so they're able to raise half a billion dollars as their seed round, which is incredible.

So a lot of early, I think, coverage is kind of focused on the company's kind of AI for empowering humans framing.

But I think the ambition for their whole company is a lot deeper than, I don't know, they kind of had this kind of like motivational language on their website, which I don't think was that important.

Obviously, people are just giving them money because they have a great team.

But now I think this kind of direction they're taking is great.

They're trying to build a new foundation model, one that is architected specifically for understanding people in groups.

So how they communicate, how they disagree, how they align, how they make decisions together over time.

I think this is really kind of an interesting concept and important because if you think about it at work or at school or wherever,

Sometimes we do projects alone, but a lot of projects we have to do with other people and there's a lot of different stakeholders in a project and you have to look at everyone's input and thoughts and it's just kind of a mess.

And so if an AI is trying to do everything, it's just going to try to do it all itself and not really take everyone else's thoughts into consideration.

This is what they said.

Annie Peng is one of the co-founders.

She was formerly at Anthropic, and she said,

I think a lot of that shift is already possible.

And you see this across a lot of different industries.

Companies are moving from kind of these chat interfaces to more agent-based systems.

Models are, you know, getting much better.

I mean, even just what ChatGPT 5.2 can do today is, I think, leagues above what we were getting a year ago.

So obviously, these things are getting better.