Humans& Thinks Coordination Is The Next Frontier For AI, And They’re Building A Model To Prove It
Humans& raises $480M to build an AI model focused on human collaboration, not just chat.
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Humans& Thinks Coordination Is The Next Frontier For AI, And They’re Building A Model To Prove It
AI Coordination Is the Next Frontier—And Humans& Is Building It For years, AI assistants have excelled at answering questions, summarizing reports, and even writing code—but they’ve largely ignored one of the messiest, most essential parts of work: coordination. Enter Humans& , a stealth startup founded by veterans from Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI, and Google DeepMind, which just raised a staggering $480 million seed round to tackle what it calls the “next frontier” of artificial intelligence: socially intelligent models that help people collaborate, not just compute . Credit: Humans& Unlike today’s chatbots that serve individual users in isolation, Humans& is building a foundation model designed to navigate group dynamics, track evolving decisions, and align teams with competing priorities. The goal? To create a “central nervous system” for the human-plus-AI economy—one that doesn’t replace people but empowers them to work together more effectively, both with each other a…
