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Jaden Schaefer

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AI HR
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

And I know it's like, well, why can't the AI do the sales?

AI HR
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

And realistically, people usually want to talk to a person on a call and not be sold by an AI agent that you can't really verify and put a face to.

AI HR
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

Gumloop definitely isn't alone, though.

AI HR
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

And I think chasing this kind of vision of turning

AI HR
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

knowledge workers into AI builders.

AI HR
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

There's a lot of competition, Zapier, N8n, you know, there's some newer interesting agent tools that I've been looking at like Dust.

AI HR
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

And of course, I'm building one AI box.

AI HR
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

And so I think basically, even the major AI companies are moving in this direction.

AI HR
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

Anthropic recently introduced Claude Cowork, which basically lets you create autonomous agents without writing any sort of code.

AI HR
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

And like ChatGPT is custom GPTs, which I wouldn't go so far as to call those agents, but they are useful tools that can help you kind of automate some things to a small degree.

AI HR
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

Now, one thing that I think Gumloop is doing very well, and I predict this as a huge trend across all AI companies, is that they are modeling

AI HR
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

agnostic by design.

AI HR
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

So basically, every time there's a new update and a new model starts kind of crushing it in the benchmarks and beating everybody else.

AI HR
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

I mean, typically we see kind of like a cyclical loop somewhere between like ChatGPT and Claude and Gemini and Grok and maybe another random one gets thrown in the mix every once in a while.

AI HR
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

But we see this like every quarter basically cycling through who's leading in the benchmarks.

AI HR
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

And so because of that, different AI models are

AI HR
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

good at different tasks.

AI HR
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

They perform differently.

AI HR
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

Gumloop basically lets companies choose whatever model fits their job best at the moment and they can switch that out.

AI HR
Gumloop Raises $50M from Benchmark to Scale AI Agents

I think this is actually smart and it's kind of a competitive advantage that OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, they can't really touch because even though they're all going to make these AI agent tools, if you could get the same thing at a company that lets you switch and interchange between them all, there's a huge value there as different AI models are kind of going up and down in the benchmarks and they're