HumansAnd Raises $480M Seed Round to Build AI for Human Collaboration

The podcast explores HumansAnd, a startup aiming to create a "central nervous system" for human-AI interaction. It addresses the limitations of current AI chatbots, which excel at individual tasks but struggle with collaborative, messy human workflows. HumansAnd is developing a new foundation model designed to understand and facilitate group dynamics, communication, and decision-making. The company's approach involves long horizon and multi-agent reinforcement learning to train models that can plan and adapt within complex, multi-participant environments. Despite a $480 million seed round, HumansAnd faces competition from major AI players like Google and OpenAI, all vying to integrate AI into collaborative workflows. The company differentiates itself by focusing on social intelligence as a core principle, though the practicality of this approach remains to be seen.