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Jaden Schaefer

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AI HR
HumansAnd Raises $480M Seed Round to Build AI for Human Collaboration

But some of the workflows, I think, are still really fragmented, right?

AI HR
HumansAnd Raises $480M Seed Round to Build AI for Human Collaboration

So if you're looking at the true bottlenecks, I think a lot of time it is coordinating things.

AI HR
HumansAnd Raises $480M Seed Round to Build AI for Human Collaboration

It's not just like how smart the AI model is.

AI HR
HumansAnd Raises $480M Seed Round to Build AI for Human Collaboration

And then you also have the other side of that, which is a lot of workers right now feel very overwhelmed or they feel very threatened by a lot of these AI tools.

AI HR
HumansAnd Raises $480M Seed Round to Build AI for Human Collaboration

And basically, this kind of like promise of efficiency is, I think, scary for a lot of people who are like, well, how is this going to address, you know, what's going on inside of my organization?

AI HR
HumansAnd Raises $480M Seed Round to Build AI for Human Collaboration

And is this going to displace me?

AI HR
HumansAnd Raises $480M Seed Round to Build AI for Human Collaboration

So humans and that's the name of the company.

AI HR
HumansAnd Raises $480M Seed Round to Build AI for Human Collaboration

And they're essentially trying to set themselves as an answer to that tension that we're seeing, you know, whether that is, you know, framing this philosophically or strategically.

AI HR
HumansAnd Raises $480M Seed Round to Build AI for Human Collaboration

I think this is probably a really good time for them to jump in and and kind of lead with that.

AI HR
HumansAnd Raises $480M Seed Round to Build AI for Human Collaboration

So despite them obviously raising a massive seed round and they have a really solid team, they don't yet have a product.

AI HR
HumansAnd Raises $480M Seed Round to Build AI for Human Collaboration

And I think that is also very interesting.

AI HR
HumansAnd Raises $480M Seed Round to Build AI for Human Collaboration

The company is really deliberate, I guess, in how vague they are about what the first vision is going to look like of their new AI model they're training.

AI HR
HumansAnd Raises $480M Seed Round to Build AI for Human Collaboration

Although they've all kind of hinted that it's going to replace or sit along some multiplayer collaboration environments.

AI HR
HumansAnd Raises $480M Seed Round to Build AI for Human Collaboration

You can imagine things like Slack or Google Docs or Notion, etc.

AI HR
HumansAnd Raises $480M Seed Round to Build AI for Human Collaboration

I think their target audience right now is both enterprise teams and like different consumer products.

AI HR
HumansAnd Raises $480M Seed Round to Build AI for Human Collaboration

So companies and families, they kind of talk like they're going to approach both of those.

AI HR
HumansAnd Raises $480M Seed Round to Build AI for Human Collaboration

Their CEO, who is Eric Zekerman, he was formerly at XAI, and he said, we are building a product and a model that is centered on communication and collaboration.

AI HR
HumansAnd Raises $480M Seed Round to Build AI for Human Collaboration

He said that their goal is to basically help people work together more efficiently, not with AI tools, but with one another.

AI HR
HumansAnd Raises $480M Seed Round to Build AI for Human Collaboration

So that's kind of interesting.

AI HR
HumansAnd Raises $480M Seed Round to Build AI for Human Collaboration

you know, solve a lot of the problems that these really long meetings will have when there's kind of unclear consensus, there's decision fatigue.