A Betaworks Accelerator Program
In December 2023 we announced the theme of the 10th Camp program at Betaworks: Agents. This theme was based on our belief that agents are a critical part of the AI ecosystem and could become the catch-all term for natively AI software.
Out of more than 250 companies that applied, we picked nine teams. Each have formed a unique insight about agents and agentic AI, and are taking a differentiated approach to solving massive problems. The cohort is a distinct mix of infrastructure/tooling and application-layer products, with founders from the US, Europe, and Canada.
Our experience with this Camp cohort confirms “agents” will become the overarching term for native AI software in the same way that “apps” became the term for native mobile software.
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February 18, 2024
May 7, 2024
May 7, 2024
Cohort Demos
Extensible AI
Extensible is building a commercially-usable logging tool for agents (completely free and open-source) as well as a plug-and-play reliability tool on top of it.Extensible provides high-quality, production-ready, fully open-source tools, helping enterprises set up custom at-scale logging infra at cost. Their target customers are AI Agent companies working on deploying agents to production.
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Floode
We waste time scrolling through our email inboxes every 15 minutes to identify the 1% of critical information amidst 99% of irrelevant data. To address this issue, Floode is replacing the outdated inbox with a highly personalized AI executive assistant tailored to each user’s needs. Through seamless collaboration with the user, the Floode AI assistant can determine the next steps for each incoming email before processing the information. Floode is currently available as a web app and will be released on mobile by the end of the year.
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High Dimensional Research
Building agentic applications is hard and even the state of the art is unreliable. HDR has developed a batteries-included framework for launching web agents. At the core of this framework is the Collective Memory Index, which transmits information between models to enable any LLM to execute tasks reliably. HDR sells credits on a per use basis. Their target customers are AI developers at all team sizes and levels of technical ability with additional utilities for enterprises.
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Jsonify
Jsonify has built smart AI agents that can discover, monitor and extract data from websites and documents, using advanced computer vision models to look at the page and understand structure in the same way that a human does. In other words, it can turn messy websites and documents into sensible structured JSON or CSV data, in seconds — with no human intervention! Jsonify’s customers are tech startups who want to build on top of the AI stack/API, and non-technical businesses who have data needs and don’t want to maintain or build data pipelines themselves. The product has a tiered pricing model (based on the number of run tasks run), including a freemium level.
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MBodi
Mbodi’s target customers are any company or research lab with a robot. Initial targets are the open source enthusiasts like Meta, research labs, and startups as well as service robot companies. Mbodi will provide their unique, cross-embodiment end-to-end learning framework as an open-source alternative to extensive tele-operation and ecosystem lock-in as encountered with Nvidia. Simultaneously, they will charge per token for hosting and servicing multimodal generative AI features for robotics such as inference-time planning, dreaming (training on generated sensor data), a dashboard for observing catastrophic forgetting, and high performance low latency inference endpoints.
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Opponent
Opponent Systems is building a new kind of attention-giving agent to augment family life. Our first product is a digital dragon you can facetime/video call like an extended family member. It incorporates a new architecture for graduating memories into cognitive maps (from made-up games to common sense), and a System 2-inspired faculty for applying those maps to the play at hand. Target customers are the divided parent, the only child, the atomized family.
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Resolvd AI
Engineering teams are increasingly burdened with maintaining microservice-based cloud infrastructure, diverting their focus from core product development and innovation. Resolvd’s desktop application allows users to effortlessly capture their cloud-related workflows via screen recordings, automatically generating step-by-step documentation and automating those workflows through a powerful CLI/Browser engine.
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Skej
Scheduling the 1+ billion meetings that occur every year is a laborious, time consuming task that kills productivity and is notoriously hard to automate. Enter Skej: a dynamic AI agent that seamlessly handles all back and forth scheduling communications and calendar bookings.Simply copy Skej in an email, DM, or Slack/Teams conversation and watch it take over the entire scheduling process. Skej simulates the actions of a great executive assistant, and it’s compatible with any existing calendar tool. Skej offers a free tier and a paid subscription where users can unlock premium features and advanced scheduling tools.
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Twin Labs
Twin Labs is building apps and models to enable knowledge workers to assign repetitive tasks to an AI with the same ease as delegating to a smart intern. Users create “Flows,” natural language descriptions of tasks to run or automate. Twin’s custom action model translates them into the right sequence of actions to execute. Finally, these actions are executed autonomously through its headless browser, which can control and navigate within any application.
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cohort
Extensible AI
Floode
High Dimensional Research
Jsonify
MBodi
Opponent
Resolvd AI
Skej
Twin Labs
