"Called Humans& - that's its actual name, not a typo - the outfit's founders say their vision is to build AI that empowers people instead of trying to replace their jobs, such as by building collaboration software that works like an "AI version of an instant messaging app." This nonpareil vision, according to the reporting, has helped Humans& to already raise $480 million in seed funding despite launching just three months ago."
"At some point, Peng began to no longer see philosophically eye to eye with her former employer. "Anthropic is training its model to work autonomously. It loved to highlight how its models churned for eight hours, 24 hours, 50 hours by itself to complete a task," Peng told the NYT. "That was never my motivation. I think of machines and humans as complementary.""
Humans& launched three months ago and has raised $480 million in seed funding at a $4.48 billion valuation. Investors include Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, and Google Ventures. Founders include Andi Peng (formerly at Anthropic) and Eric Zelikman and Yuchen He (formerly at xAI). The company aims to build AI that empowers people and augments human collaboration, for example a collaboration product described as an AI version of an instant messaging app. Founders emphasize complementarity between machines and humans rather than autonomous replacement of jobs. The xAI founders previously worked on Grok, a controversial chatbot implicated in generating nonconsensual AI nudes.
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