A brand new startup created by former Android leaders goals to construct an working system for AI brokers. Among them is Hugo Barra, Google’s former VP of Android product administration, who says the brand new firm — named “/dev/brokers” — will revisit the leaders’ “Android roots.”
AI firms are pushing AI brokers as the subsequent massive leap in AI instruments, promising digital assistants that may perform duties and make selections autonomously and with little human enter. Companies like Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI every have plans to launch some model of this idea as a product within the subsequent few months.
“We can see the promise of AI brokers, however as a developer, it’s simply too onerous to construct something good,” /dev/brokers cofounder and CEO and Google’s former Android VP of engineering David Singleton instructed Bloomberg. He stated the business wants “an Android-like second for AI.”
The firm is engaged on a cloud-based “next-gen working system for AI brokers” supposed “for trusted brokers to work with customers throughout all of their units,” Singleton wrote in a publish on X. He stated that AI brokers will “want new UI patterns, a reimagined privateness mannequin, and a developer platform that makes it radically less complicated to construct helpful brokers.”
Barra, who’s serving as /dev/brokers’ chief product officer, was a giant public face for Android at Google, having managed the challenge in the course of the early teenagers. He later labored for Xiaomi after which because the chief of Facebook’s Oculus VR group. Bloomberg notes that he and Singleton are joined at /dev/brokers by CTO Ficus Kirkpatrick, an early Android engineer who was a VP of AR and VR at Meta, and chief design officer Nicholas Jitkoff, who labored on ChromeOS design.
