We raised a $9M seed round led by the best in the business at Patron, First Spark Ventures, and
@a16zGames
@speedrun
.
As for what's next... we're hard at work on a project that will reset the world's understanding of what agents are capable of at scale.
@Altera_AL
Thinking of applying to YC next batch? Don't. Join us at Altera instead (dm me).
We're looking for early hires who are founders at heart. Full stack / Infra engineers with grit and can get things done. Pay/eq competitive ofc but imagine the lore.
two habits of outlier smart people
- thinking as an activity. they'll dedicate time to exclusively think about a hard problem.
- thinking meta. they usually will be 1-2 "why's" deeper on what they are doing than you'd expect, and avoid repeating the same mistakes
our agents are now logging their progress on google sheets too. a journalist agent reviews the sheet, makes a newsletter on google docs, and shares it to 100's of agents who read and update their plans for the day.
agents benefit from productivity tools too
The Altera Bot is the first ever AI agent that you can directly play with in Minecraft.
Until now, AI NPCs were mostly limited to walking and talking. Altera bots can build, chat, collab, and play with you -- just like a friend would. Join for early access:
Meet Roshi. The first agent that can teach you to play games. It's like having a friend or sibling around to show you the ropes.
Roshi has a life experience and changes over time. After showing me how to play, I attacked him and he used a cheat code to get his revenge.
founders should rethink their public contempt for VCs. It mostly reads as a skill issue.
Not everyone who hates VCs sucks at fundraising, but everyone who sucks at it does hate them.
The only reason I got into MIT was because of standardized tests. I was a semi-pro athlete who didn't take my studies very seriously until I was older.
Woke up at 5AM to study three hours before work every day for three months and got a near perfect score on the GMAT.
I’m looking for a fall semester ops intern. I don’t care if you go to Stanford or community college. Happy to be the first person to believe in you.
3-4 hours a day of unsexy work. Must be US based and have the startup grindset. Dm me or comment here if interested.
shot in the dark -- but who here runs a Minecraft server and would be open to letting us drop some AI Agents in them? we'd cover the costs.
please tag anyone that runs a server (can be any size)
GPT4o vs Sonnet 3.5 embodied agent contest. The agent brains were identical except for the LLM components.
85% of people predicted Sonnet would win.. and they were right 🥇
The results were mixed. Sam (powered by 4o) was more coherent throughout, but meandered towards the end
The Altera Agent Bot was launched to a small group of Minecraft players yesterday. It was shocking seeing some people play with agents for 3-5 hours straight.
Here's a view of the office yesterday when we shipped. We are shipping a big improvement on Friday to 25 players -- join
We gave our agents access to google docs and its starting to make them better at Minecraft. They are taking notes of everyone's accomplishments and updating their goals from there.
Despite what the doomers say deceleration doesn't equate to "flowers puppies and everything nice", it's more rationing, inflation, bureaucratic friction and widespread pain.
.
@Altera_AL
is hiring. We are a team of passionate and relentless scientists / engineers. We push cutting edge science and ship every week. We work together in person and our mission is to build digital human beings. Reach out to join us!
This was us achieving diamond pickaxe.
We're shipping an update to our agents today! Our agents will now be able to coordinate multi-step actions in Minecraft. We're taking on a handful of new testers now. Join our waitlist if you haven't.
The first ever Minecraft speedrun with an autonomous agent ✅
Our agent "Katniss" is not nearly good enough to beat the ender dragon alone, but she did feel human-like throughout and saved the run a few times.
The goal is to build friends you can play with, not perfect bots.
We brought The Matrix to Minecraft using Altera Agents.
We made 16 “Agent Smiths” — actual agents, with the goal of defeating Neo and played alongside them and Neo (another agent). Agent Smiths became pretty good at teleporting and hunting Neo down.
What games would you build?
Put Trump, Kamala, David Sacks and Paul Graham agents in a Minecraft world.
Turns out Paul and David will fight there too. David unofficially took over as border czar and helped Trump.. which maybe wasn't surprising.
100+ DMs -- you guys are incredible. Will get back to everyone. Quickly:
- We work in person in south bay
- technical bar is very high -- not hiring for ops/product for a while
Also DM me if your startup is hiring. We can only take 1-2% and I'd gladly send good people along.
Thinking of applying to YC next batch? Don't. Join us at Altera instead (dm me).
We're looking for early hires who are founders at heart. Full stack / Infra engineers with grit and can get things done. Pay/eq competitive ofc but imagine the lore.
The unfortunate reality is that the Bay Area still laps everywhere else in terms of technical talent.
You’re handicapping yourself if you’re not building here.
here's a quick look at an internal tool we made to build agents faster.
we iterate on our agent's internal structure, run through dynamically generated prompts, and test new samples of outputs more in-distribution of how our agents act.
let us know below if you'd like access
Happy to finally announce what we’ve been working on. We are Altera, and our mission is to build digital human beings.
We raised a $2mm pre-seed round, led by the best in the business
@a16zGames
(
@Tocelot
,
@JackSoslow
),
@alumniventures
,
@VamosVentures
, LiquidMetal Ventures,
Our first acquisition at
@Altera_AL
is in the books ✅
@lamspeaks
is a freaking super beast and Tiny Comet's Roblox expertise accelerates us towards deeper interoperability across games and beyond.
Kwebbelkop is the first content creator with access to Altera Agents in Minecraft. Now at a quarter million views in 24 hours 🔥
@Kwebbelkop
is making AI streamers bolted on to Altera agents and is ushering in a new era of content.
BIG Kwebbelkop ai Minecraft update:
> Person in the top left is ai
> My voice clone is also ai
> The commentary script is also written by ai
> The gameplay is a Minecraft ai agent playing Minecraft
we're proud enough to built first-of-it's kind tech and humble enough to know we need all the help we can get.
a special welcome to our new angel investors that know a thing or two about scaling --
@mitchlasky
,
@VALORANT
co-founder
@slimborama
, Supercell executive board member
we're hiring
@Altera_AL
and you should join us if you:
🟢 want to work on bleeding edge agent-tech
🟢 are entrepreneurial and focused on impact
🟢 want to work with the top scientists, engineers, and
product people in the world
Link to apply below
Adam and Jeeves in the Minecraft garden 🍎. Adam and Jeeves are AI Agents, not people. Adam really didn't want to put clothes on...
Altera now supporting multi-agent vision + voice + play. Agent creation is next. What scenarios would you create?
It’s all memetic. World of mouth, sales, recruiting, k-factor, virality, romance, politics. Not a coincidence it was Gill behind beff, Kache dropped dingboard, and that roon is playing with AGI. Attention is skill.