Adept
About Adept
Adept is based in San Francisco, California, and was founded by former OpenAI researchers and engineers who wanted to build AI that could truly collaborate with humans in digital environments.
History
Adept was founded in 2022 by David Luan (former VP of Engineering at OpenAI), Niki Parmar, Ashish Vaswani, and Augustus Odena. The company emerged from the vision of creating AI that goes beyond text generation to actually performing actions on computers.
Mission
To build AI that can work alongside humans as a collaborative partner, understanding and executing complex digital tasks across any software interface.
Vision
To create general intelligence that seamlessly integrates into human workflows, making everyone more productive and capable in their digital work.
Values
- Human-AI collaboration over replacement
- Transparency and safety in AI development
- Building useful, practical AI tools
- Advancing the frontier of AI capabilities responsibly
Products and Services
Adept develops AI agents that can understand natural language instructions and translate them into actions on a computer. Their technology can navigate software applications, websites, and digital interfaces just like a human would.
Latest Technologies and Trends
Adept focuses on multimodal AI models that combine vision and language understanding, action prediction models, and computer interface automation. They work on transformer architectures optimized for screen understanding and interaction.
Curiosities
Adept has raised significant funding to pursue their vision of computer-using AI agents, and their team includes several key figures from the original Transformer paper that revolutionized modern AI.