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HumansAnd Raises $480M Seed Round to Build AI for Human Collaboration

In Machines we Trust

In Machines we Trust

Technology

4.36 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we discuss HumansAnd, a new startup founded by AI veterans, and their ambitious goal to build an AI model focused on human collaboration rather than just individual intelligence. We also explore their unique approach to AI development and the competitive landscape of the AI industry.


Chapters
00:00 Introduction to HumansAnd
00:57 AI Box File Uploads
03:28 HumansAnd's Vision and Funding
08:41 The Importance of Asking Questions
13:40 Competition and Future Insights
24:05 Conclusion

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0:00.0

Welcome to the podcast. I'm your host, Jaden Schaefer. Today on the show, I want to talk about a really interesting company called Humans and. And I think the reason why a lot of people are talking about them is that right now we have all of these different chatbots and have gotten really good at answering questions. They're really good at summarizing documents or solving equations, all of these types of things we think about all the time. But for all, you know, for how intelligent

0:21.4

and how smart they are, most of them still act like they're kind of this solo assistant, right?

0:26.6

They're optimized for one user and for they're doing one prompt at a time. What they're not doing

0:31.5

and what they're not very good at is some of these really messy, more human kind of work of

0:36.5

collaboration things that we do. So whether that's

0:38.5

like, you know, coordinating groups with a bunch of conflicting priorities or if they're tracking

0:42.8

decisions over weeks or months or if they're trying to help teams stay aligned or goals and, you know,

0:48.0

all these goals and people and information is all kind of shifting around. This is what AI chatbots

0:51.9

are struggling with today. And so humans and is building a

0:55.3

solution to this. I'm going to get into all of this on the podcast today. But before we do, I wanted

0:59.4

to mention the new feature we've just added to AIBox that I'm super excited about. And that is

1:03.6

file uploads for our builder. So we have a vibe builder tool. If you've never built a software

1:09.9

before, I never built a tool before you can go

1:11.7

to a ibox.ai describe what you're trying to build on our builder and our i will automatically

1:17.3

link together different AI models and fill out the prompts and we've been doing this for a while

1:21.8

it's something we're excited about we just added the ability for you to do file upload so like one

1:26.1

example is i created a headshot photo

1:28.4

generator and you can create like a hundred different variations. In fact, I had a friend and he used

1:33.5

to have a company that was literally an AI Viking generator. So you would pay him like 20 bucks and he would

1:38.3

give you 20 images of yourself as a Viking and you upload, you know, a few photos of yourself or whatever.

1:42.8

You can now build that along with a million different variations of that. And, of course, a lot of very useful things when you're doing PDFs and files and all that kind of stuff that you upload to the builder and create tools and systems for all this kind of stuff. But you can build that now on AIbox.a.i. So if you want to go check it out, we've just out of that functionality and I'd love to hear what you guys think about it. And there's a link in the description to AIbox.a. All right. Let's talk about what Human Ans is doing. So it's a three-month-old startup. They were founded by some alumni that came from Anthropic meta-open AI, X-AI, Google DeepMind. So a lot of, you know, a lot of top AI labs.

2:19.9

And essentially, they believe that the next kind of step for some of these AI models is not

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