Former Android Leaders Are Building an 'Operating System For AI Agents'

The Verge's Wes Davis reports: A new startup created by former Android leaders aims to build an operating system for AI agents. Among them is Hugo Barra, Google's former VP of Android product management, who says the new company -- named '/dev/agents' -- will revisit the leaders' 'Android roots.'

'We can see the promise of AI agents, but as a developer, it's just too hard to build anything good,' /dev/agents cofounder and CEO and Google's former Android VP of engineering David Singleton told Bloomberg. He said the industry needs 'an Android-like moment for AI.'

The company is working on a cloud-based 'next-gen operating system for AI agents' intended 'for trusted agents to work with users across all of their devices,' Singleton wrote in a post on X. He said that AI agents will 'need new UI patterns, a reimagined privacy model, and a developer platform that makes it radically simpler to build useful agents.'

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