The frontier of artificial intelligence is advancing at a velocity that the broader economy simply cannot match. Across industries, cutting-edge AI labs ship revolutionary capabilities nearly every month, while Fortune 500 companies desperately scramble to absorb and operationalize the breakthroughs that came out just last year. Watching this widening gap between technological potential and practical enterprise adoption, a fundamental truth becomes glaringly clear. The primary bottleneck holding back the AI revolution isn’t a lack of raw intelligence or computational power; rather, it is the profound challenge of helping everyday customers understand what AI can actually do for them and how it can directly solve their operational problems. This exact realization is the reason why we are absolutely thrilled to announce our partnership with Sable.
To understand the magnitude of this challenge, imagine a simple business scenario. Suppose your company wanted every single prospective buyer to fully understand the nuance and value of your product or service, completely unbound by the traditional limitations of time, human availability, and economic scale. What steps would you take? Naturally, you would want to put your absolute best product expert into every single sales and discovery conversation. This ideal expert would take the time to learn each customer’s unique business goals, developing a deep, authentic sense of empathy for their pain points. Instead of merely describing the product through static marketing language, they would actively demonstrate it live. They would meticulously answer every question, adapt on the fly to every level of technical experience, and stay in the conversation until the customer fully understood not just what your product is, but what it could tangibly do for them. And crucially, they wouldn’t perform this high-touch service for your largest enterprise accounts alone; they would provide this dedicated expertise to every single prospect, regardless of size.
Sable makes this ambitious vision an operational reality. The company has created "Aidan," recognized as the first true AI employee, which independently leads its own customer-facing calls utilizing a sophisticated combination of computer vision, natural voice synthesis, video presence, and real-time browser interaction. Despite being less than one year old, Sable has already caught the attention of pioneering frontier companies that are actively using the platform to explain their complex products. These early adopters include industry leaders utilizing Notion’s custom agents and Decagon’s agent-building platform, alongside a growing roster of large public enterprises. There is currently a staggering range of applications and organizations that are deeply eager to deploy autonomous AI employees, stretching from the world’s fastest-growing startups looking desperately to keep pace with soaring market demand, to massive legacy enterprises seeking to accelerate their growth trajectories through cutting-edge artificial intelligence. We have been completely blown away by the sheer volume of market pull for this entirely new capability, with more than 150 companies already waiting in line on Sable’s exclusive waitlist.
Building enterprise-grade deployments of multimodal AI employees is no simple feat; it requires a delicate and demanding combination of relentless customer obsession and groundbreaking technological achievements at the absolute frontier of the field. This includes engineering low-latency browser use, processing real-time computer vision, and orchestrating simultaneous, fluid human-agent interaction. Problems of this complexity and scale are ultimately won or lost by the people behind the technology, and Sable is exceptionally well-positioned to solve them.
The four founding team members are close friends who originally crossed paths at Harvard, where they dedicated their academic and research pursuits to advanced topics including post-training methodologies, reinforcement learning, and multimodality. Before uniting to form Sable, they honed their technical and operational craft at some of the world’s most demanding engineering environments, including SpaceX, Google, Meta, and Together AI. Nim, the co-founder and chief executive officer, possesses a rare and powerful combination of strong executive leadership and clear technological vision. He exhibits an innate talent and exceptionally impressive experience when it comes to recruiting the highest-caliber people to work cohesively together and achieve what many would consider unlikely. That foundational philosophy has shaped Sable’s corporate culture from day one: the company remains utterly obsessed with hiring extraordinary talent. Among their very first hires is a unique, high-performing mix of applied AI researchers and customer-obsessed engineers, including ten Harvard alumni, former quantitative financial traders, and decorated International Math Olympiad winners.
The rare combination of an all-star technical team, undeniable and surging market demand, and a bold, clear-eyed vision is precisely why we were thrilled to lead Sable’s seed funding round and subsequently co-lead its Series A financing. We firmly believe that Nim, Leon, Linda, and Itamar are successfully building the foundational infrastructure required for modern companies to seamlessly manage their growing workforces of AI employees, and we could not be more excited to embark on this journey alongside them.
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