With new funding that values it at $1 billion, the year-old company already counts Microsoft, Nvidia and Workday as strategic partners.
Traditionally, more complex software is harder to use. Nabeel Hyatt, general partner at Spark Capital, says that if Adept's team achieves its full potential, this may no longer be the case.Chatbots rule the day in AI for now, but soon, Adept cofounder David Luan predicts, AI won’t just display unsettlingly human responses to typed queries, it will execute them.
Adept, barely a one-year-old startup with just 25 employees, has raised $350 million of venture capital after demoing a rudimentary version of such a digital assistant. Instead of generating text, like, or images, like DALL-E, Adept intensely studying how humans use computers—from browsing the internet to navigating a complex enterprise software tool—to build an AI model that can turn a text command into sets of actions.
A synthesizer lets a musician play sounds of every instrument without having to learn how to play every instrument. We want to build the same thing for computing.Part of the investor froth comes from the cofounders’ pedigree — rare among the flurry of founders who have flocked to start AI startups in recent months. “A lot of people talk the game, but it's very difficult for them to play the game,” Nishar said.
Practically speaking, Adept’s ACT-1 displays as an overlay window on top of existing software like Google Chrome or Salesforce. A prototype is ready for desktop, but Luan said it will also be available on mobile in the future. The company has “commitments and targets on the revenue side” from a handful of partners, he added, but would not say when the public would be able to play with the AI assistant.
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