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Jack Dorsey is taking on Slack with Buzz, a group chat platform for teams and their AI agents
Buzz is a group chat platform for the workplace that puts humans and their AI agents in the same conversation.
TL;DR
- Jack Dorsey announced a new app called Buzz, a workplace group chat platform.
- Buzz aims to compete with Slack and GitHub by integrating humans and AI agents in conversations.
- The platform is described as model-agnostic, decentralized, self-sovereign, and open source, built by Dorsey's company Block.
- Buzz merges multiple workflows into a single workspace, allowing native AI agents and GitHub project management.
- Being open source, developers can customize Buzz instances and build new features.
- Buzz faces competition from similar initiatives like Georgios Konstantopoulos's Centaur.
- The app is in its early stages and currently available as a free desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux.