Honu

I wrote to the Financial Times about the current inflated claims around LLMs capabilities, and the need to examine alternative approaches to reach AI's true potential.

We're live with our Deep Dive on Honu with Founder Imad Riachi! Honu is on a quest to enable full business autonomy 💡 In this conversation, Imad takes us through the founding story of Honu, their new category of decision-making infrastructure, and Honu’s roadmap for the next 12 months. Link below 👇 https://lnkd.in/eDhF-Cef

Joining me next week, on June 6th at the Autonomous Innovation Summit, for my talk on "The Unfolding of the AI First Economy". I’ll be giving a perspective on the structural changes economies will undergo as highly autonomous businesses start contributing to a significant portion of their GDP. I’ll be exploring questions such as: Which countries are best positioned to make this a reality? How will governance of companies change ? How will this shape the futures of services, financing, expertise and the role of governments ? How can we design these underlying technologies to remain human-centric and promote abundance for their societies? Share with me your thoughts on these topics if you have been thinking about them...and if anyone is looking for an extra ticket to the conference let me know, I might have a couple to give away. link to the conference: https://lnkd.in/d99nsbE4 #autonomousbusinesses #aifirsteconomy #aifirstbusiness

Today’s the day! It’s here: Cohort 4 of Grow London Global 🚀 We’re at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) to welcome another 98 high-growth London scaleups on to our international trade programme, as we launch another cohort. A year on from our very first Grow London Global cohort, we’re so proud to have supported 300+ businesses so far, travelling from Asia to North America to Oceania and everywhere in between with our London cohorts, to support them on their global scaling journey 🌎 So let’s welcome another lot! Over the next 12 months we’ll be supporting these London companies with trade missions, events, connections, one-to-one support and so much more 🤗 Thanks to our programme partners at Microsoft, Oury Clark, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Deel, GrantTree and twentyAI for making another cohort possible 🙌 Let’s do this, Grow London Global Cohort 4! ✨ Meet the companies joining us from today 👉 https://lnkd.in/e2XK3Sb2

Over the past few months, we at Prosus Ventures together with Prosus AI have extensively explored the Agent and AgentOps realm, and created two accompanying mappings as part of this: 1) An Agent Landscape and 2) AgentOps Ecosystem. Please check out our full blog post for more insights: https://lnkd.in/e_NmBr9Z What’s in these mappings?   💡Building useful AI agents can be challenging due to factors like tech readiness, scalability, and access to tooling. However, once an agent works well, it can become an invaluable asset to a given team. While previously, automation happened via a rule-based / pre-programmed approach, agents today can execute each task individually, accounting for small nuances between tasks.   🤖 Agent landscape. Here we differentiate between 3 agent categories: -- General agents often address the individual as a personal assistant (such as Adept, MultiOn or Cognosys). We already see lots of players building in this category, competing head on with OpenAI -- Function-specific agents are fine-tuned for a specific task (such as Ema Unlimited, 11x.ai or PolyAI) -- Vertical agents are fine-tuned for an industry (such as Defog.ai (YC W23) or Hippocratic AI) In our experience, agents get better if built for a specific domain or a narrower set of tasks. This is an area we are closely watching for potential investments.    🔧 AgentOps Ecosystem. These are the tools that remove technical barriers, enabling Agent development and scalability to ultimately foster advanced and efficient systems. Investing in this category offers exposure to diverse agent opportunities without the need to focus on a single use case. -- Agent-specific tools: Frameworks such as LangChain or Hugging Face Agents allow developers to get off the ground faster. Multi-agent systems such as AutogenAI enable agents to work together to achieve goals beyond the capabilities of individual agents. Honu aims to take this a step further by proactively initiating requests to fulfill strategic business objectives, mimicking a manager or even CEO -- General ML Ops: these tools find application across genAI more broadly. LLM routers such as Martian allow developers to integrate various models and redirect each task to the best LLM for a specific use case. This is important for AI agents, where an error in the action plan can lead to an incorrect output. When an LLM is involved in executing steps of an action plan, these errors can propagate through each step The space is still in its infancy and rapidly evolving, but we are excited about the disruptive potential of this technology. 🚀 If you are a founder building in the space, please do reach out to myself and Sandeep B.! Thanks Javier Valverde, Euro Beinat, Paul van der Boor, Ioannis Zempekakis, Nishikant Dhanuka, Ahmed Mohamed, and many others for your contributions! Thanks to Sifted and Tim Smith for covering our agent scan!

Every few months, we take a breath and look at the data to figure out which startups have been getting PreSeed Now readers most excited over the past 12 months. And so here's our spring 2024 edition of the startups getting you most excited: Featuring: ClioBooks.ai, Honu, Blend., GambitBio, BLEND (yes, there are two startups with the same name in this list!), Cambridge Future Tech, MOMO Biotech, Radar, Aligned AI, and Contxt Media. Read on to find out all about them... 👉 https://lnkd.in/eRBTF5pP 👈

🧠 As part of our quick founder questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Imad Riachi, PhD, Founder and CEO of Honu, about #business creation, AI's #power and the ‘#disagree and #commit’ #culture. "Our quest is to build the #nextgeneration of #intelligence by reimagining how #companies operate. We don’t see this leap coming through #GenAI or throwing a trillion chips at the problem. Instead it comes from redefining the #intelligence stack – and introducing a new ‘cognitive’ layer that acts like a nervous system for the #enterprise." "Surround yourself with #brightpeople that you want to be #working with, the #journey is long with a lot of bumps along the way." https://lnkd.in/esP5ZivV