Chapter 1: What is HumansAnd and what is their mission?
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Chapter 2: How does AI Box's new feature enhance user experience?
I'm your host, Jaden Schaefer. Today on the show, I want to talk about a really interesting company called HumansAnd.
Chapter 3: What is the significance of HumansAnd's $480 million funding?
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 that 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.
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.
Chapter 4: Why is asking questions crucial for collaboration in AI?
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. And so humans and is building a solution to this.
Chapter 5: What challenges does HumansAnd face in the competitive AI landscape?
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, I never 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.
Chapter 6: How does HumansAnd aim to redefine human-AI collaboration?
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.
Chapter 7: What innovative techniques is HumansAnd using in AI development?
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. 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. 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.
Chapter 8: What are the future implications of HumansAnd's approach to AI?
So a lot of early, I think, coverage is kind of focused on their, you know, 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. So This is what they said. Annie Peng is one of the co-founders. She was formerly at Anthropic. And she said, So 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 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. But some of the workflows, I think, are still really fragmented, right?
So if you're looking at the true bottlenecks, I think a lot of time it is coordinating things. It's not just like how smart the AI model is. 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.
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? And is this going to displace me? So humans and that's the name of the company.
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. I think this is probably a really good time for them to jump in and and kind of lead with that. So despite them obviously raising a massive seed round and they have a really solid team, they don't yet have a product.
And I think that is also very interesting. 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. Although they've all kind of hinted that it's going to replace or sit along some multiplayer collaboration environments. You can imagine things like Slack or Google Docs or Notion.
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