September 5, 2024: All Hands AI Secures $5M for Open Source Agents - All Hands AI raised $5M in a seed round led by Menlo Ventures to develop open source AI agents that handle routine developer tasks, enhancing productivity. Inspired by AI Cognitions Devin demo, the project, now called OpenHands, aims to create proactive pair programmers. Co-founders Robert Brennan, Xingyao Wang, and Graham Neubig bring extensive expertise in NLP and machine learning. With plans for enterprise features, the startup seeks to integrate with tools like VS Code and build a sustainable open source model attracting enterprise contributions.
