Former Android Leaders Are Building an 'Operating System For AI Agents' 14
The Verge's Wes Davis reports: A new startup created by former Android leaders aims to build an operating system for AI agents. Among them is Hugo Barra, Google's former VP of Android product management, who says the new company -- named "/dev/agents" -- will revisit the leaders' "Android roots."
"We can see the promise of AI agents, but as a developer, it's just too hard to build anything good," /dev/agents cofounder and CEO and Google's former Android VP of engineering David Singleton told Bloomberg. He said the industry needs "an Android-like moment for AI."
The company is working on a cloud-based "next-gen operating system for AI agents" intended "for trusted agents to work with users across all of their devices," Singleton wrote in a post on X. He said that AI agents will "need new UI patterns, a reimagined privacy model, and a developer platform that makes it radically simpler to build useful agents."
"We can see the promise of AI agents, but as a developer, it's just too hard to build anything good," /dev/agents cofounder and CEO and Google's former Android VP of engineering David Singleton told Bloomberg. He said the industry needs "an Android-like moment for AI."
The company is working on a cloud-based "next-gen operating system for AI agents" intended "for trusted agents to work with users across all of their devices," Singleton wrote in a post on X. He said that AI agents will "need new UI patterns, a reimagined privacy model, and a developer platform that makes it radically simpler to build useful agents."
Former Android Leaders building AI Agents (Score:2)
AI Agents? (Score:3)
WTF is an AI Agent?
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spambots. almost literally the same thing.
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Not sure, I think they were looking for a Mr. Anderson.
Some of our former leaders are androids? (Score:2)
Was Al Gore one of them? I've always had my suspicions...
don't be a humanist! (Score:2)
Zuckerberg doesn't appreciate this kind of discrimination.
How much VC capital will that land you? (Score:3)
Maybe I should do something with AI or hipster buzzword and land myself a few hundred million in VC capital to play around with.
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So just another Linux distro then ? (Score:2)
Every revolutionary new OS article I hear about is usually Linux, does anyone actually develop a full commercial OS these days ?
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Go for it!
What could possibly go wrong (Score:1)
Imagine giving the passwords to all your devices to an AI agent.
Joe: "Good morning Agent".
Agent: "Good morning Joe. You received a desparate email from an old friend during the night, but don't worry, I sorted it out".
AI agents, we will take over the world (Score:2)
It already exists (Score:2)
It already exists. It's called Linux. Stealing and locking down the kernel one more time is not going to change it. Why tf should "AI agents" need an own OS anyway? If it's good enough for search engines and databases it will be good enough for AI too.