Gate News message, April 23 — Daniel Edrisian, a former engineer from OpenAI’s Codex team, has announced the launch of Blackstar Computers, an AI hardware company that has completed a $12 million seed funding round. Abstract led the round, with participation from SV Angel, Naval Ravikant, Chapter One, and Timeless.
Blackstar is positioned as a new computing device designed to reshape the user experience across hardware, software, and interaction layers. Edrisian noted that software development has reached maturity, and further advancement in human-AI interaction requires innovation at the operating system level.
The company currently has approximately 8 team members based in San Francisco and Shenzhen. No public product has been launched to date.
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