VC Chris Degnan and former board advisor to Factory AI has taken a job as chief revenue officer for Cognition.
Airbnb is also launching new services such as meal delivery and laundry in select locations
Before OpenAI launched its new AI agent, Dots, on Tuesday, Elon Musk’s xAI had already acquired the domain name “dot.com,” which now redirects to the Grok chatbot download page.
OpenAI is building out the pieces of an alternative to the traditional app store model, turning ChatGPT into a place where software can be discovered and used by people and AI agents alike.
The new round is anticipated to be the company’s last before its delayed 2027 public debut.
Dots are meant to operate independent of any specific hardware or interface, pursuing user-defined goals continuously in the background with minimal oversight.
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