PANews reported on December 19 that according to Bloomberg, /dev/agents, a startup founded by former Google and Stripe executives, recently completed a $56 million seed round of financing, with a valuation of $500 million. The financing was led by Index Ventures and co-led by Alphabet's investment fund CapitalG. Other well-known angel investors who participated in the investment also included Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora, and OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy.

/dev/agents plans to build a new generation of cloud operating system that supports AI agents, aiming to simplify the development process, provide developers with a unified technical framework, and promote the widespread application of AI agents. The company's core team includes co-founders David Singleton, Hugo Barra, Ficus Kirkpatrick, and Nicholas Jitkoff, who have extensive experience in Android, AR/VR, and operating system development. The team is committed to developing interactive interfaces and AI agent computing infrastructure for multiple devices to achieve seamless collaboration between users and AI agents.