Convergence AI played with agents 'for years' until raising $12M to give them long-term memory
Summary
Marvin Purtorab, CEO of new startup Convergence, and co-founder Andy Toulis (CTO) met while they both worked at Shopify on recommender systems and AI assistants. Convergences Proxy agent will work across a number of tasks, with the idea that it acquires skills in the same way a human might by giving it so-called long-term memory. These are trained to acquire the skill of learning on their own.Convergence raised a $12 million pre-seed round led by Balderton Capital. Or talent operations, like, keeping track of applicants for a job.So are they using consumers as sort of guinea pigs for the enterprise? But I do think that theyre also going much more in the direction of, like these very narrow agents that focus on one specific task Right now you dont have time to wait another six to 12 months for models to develop a bit better.Right now the company is in closed beta with testers, but it should open up shortly.