Cove, a Silicon Valley startup that helps staff collaborate whereas utilizing AI brokers, introduced Tuesday that its crew is becoming a member of Microsoft.
Phrases of the deal weren’t disclosed. Cove will shut down its product on April 1.
“Once we began Cove, we got down to reimagine how folks collaborate with AI,” Cove co-founder and CEO Stephen Chau wrote on LinkedIn. “As mannequin capabilities have accelerated, our conviction in that mission has solely grown stronger. We’re thrilled to proceed this work at Microsoft, the place we’ll have the chance to pursue a fair larger imaginative and prescient.”
Cove raised a $6 million seed spherical in 2024 led by Sequoia Capital. The corporate constructed software program to show single-threaded chats with conversational brokers into a visible workspace. It later allowed customers to create customized AI apps. The startup has lower than 10 workers, in keeping with LinkedIn.
Chau beforehand was head of product at Uber Eats earlier than launching Cove in 2023 with Mike Chu and Andy Szybalski. All three beforehand labored collectively at Google Maps.
Microsoft is aiming to spice up adoption of its Copilot assistant, which stays a comparatively small fraction of its business person base amid large investments in AI infrastructure. Final week the tech large unveiled Copilot Cowork, a new AI assistant that may run duties within the background, create paperwork, and work throughout Microsoft 365 apps,
Individually, Microsoft on Tuesday introduced a reorg inside its Copilot group, unifying its client and business AI efforts beneath former Snap govt Jacob Andreou whereas narrowing the function of Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman to deal with the superintelligence and frontier fashions.
