Jack Dorsey is taking on Slack with Buzz, a group chat platform for teams and their AI agents

Twitter and Block co-founder Jack Dorsey has launched Buzz, a new open-source group chat platform designed for the workplace. Buzz integrates human teams with their AI agents in the same conversations, offering a unified workspace for collaboration and GitHub project management. While Buzz is still in its early stages, it presents a novel approach to team communication, especially for startups increasingly reliant on AI agents.

• 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.
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