HumansAnd Raises $480M Seed Round to Build AI for Human Collaboration
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What is HumansAnd and what is their mission?
Welcome to the podcast. I'm your host, Jaden Schaefer. Today on the show, I want to talk about a really interesting company called HumansAnd. And I think the reason why a lot of people are talking about them is that right now we have all of these different chatbots and have gotten really good at answering questions. They're really good at summarizing documents or solving equations, right? All of these types of things we think about all the time.
How does AI Box's new file upload feature work?
But for all, you know, for how intelligent and how smart they are, most of them still act like they're kind of this solo assistant, right? They're optimized for one user and for doing one prompt at a time. What they're not doing and what they're not very good at is some of these really messy, more human kind of work of collaboration things that we do. So whether that's like you know, coordinating groups with a bunch of conflicting priorities, or if they're tracking decisions over weeks or months, or if they're trying to help teams stay aligned or goals, and you know, all these goals and people and information is all kind of shifting around. This is what AI chatbots are struggling with today.
What unique vision does HumansAnd have for AI collaboration?
And so humans and is building a solution to this. I'm going to get into all of this on the podcast today. But before we do, I wanted to mention the new feature we've just added to AI box that I'm super excited about. And that is file uploads for our builder. So we have a vibe builder tool. If you've never built a software before and ever built a tool before, you can go to AI box to AI, describe what you're trying to build on our builder and our AI will automatically link together different AI models and fill out the prompts. And we've been doing this for a while. It's something we're excited about. we just added the ability for you to do file upload. So like one example is I created a headshot photo generator and you can create like a hundred different variations.
In fact, I had a friend and he used to have a company that was literally an AI Viking generator. So you would pay him like 20 bucks and he would give you 20 images of yourself as a Viking and you upload a few photos of yourself or whatever. You can now build that along with a million different variations of that And of course, a lot of very useful things when you're doing PDFs and files and all that kind of stuff that you upload to the builder and create tools and systems for all this kind of stuff. But you can build that now on AIbox.ai. So if you want to go check it out, we've just added that functionality and I'd love to hear what you guys think about it. And there's a link in the description to AIbox.ai.
What challenges do current AI models face in collaboration?
All right. Let's talk about what Human Ands is doing. So it's a three month old startup. They were founded by some alumni that came from Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, XAI, Google DeepMind. So a lot of, you know, a lot of top AI labs. And essentially, they believe that the next kind of step for some of these AI models is not just better answers, but better coordination. So They just raised $480 million in a seed round, and they're trying to get what they call a, quote, central nervous system for human plus AI, the human plus AI economy, which is basically a system designed around social intelligence rather than pure information retrieval. So it's obviously kind of an interesting concept. And if, you know, random people are trying to do it, who knows what would have happened.
How does HumansAnd plan to differentiate itself in the AI market?
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.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is HumansAnd and what is their mission?
0:00–0:19
2
How does AI Box's new file upload feature work?
0:19–0:53
3
What unique vision does HumansAnd have for AI collaboration?
0:53–2:05
4
What challenges do current AI models face in collaboration?
2:05–2:50
5
How does HumansAnd plan to differentiate itself in the AI market?
2:50–4:37
6
What role does social intelligence play in HumansAnd's approach?
4:37–5:54
7
How is HumansAnd addressing the concerns of AI displacement?
5:54–7:42
8
What insights can we gain from the competitive landscape of AI?
7:42–15:31