Founded in 2024, Dremer allows users to create AI agents.
All eyes are on personal agents as Meta adds tech industry veterans behind AI startup Dream to its ‘high intelligence’ efforts.
The founding team at Dreamer includes David Singleton, who previously spent nearly seven years as Stripe’s chief technology officer; Hugo Barra, former vice president of VR at Meta; and Nicholas Jitkoff, who has also spent several years in the Meta division of VR. The three join Meta’s Superintelligence Labs.
Founded in 2024, Dremer allows users to create AI agents. The company launched its beta product last month, and it has seen thousands of downloads, he said.
Alongside the team, Meta licenses the Dreamer technology. Bloomberg reported that the licensing agreement is not exclusive, and that Dreamer will continue to be its official subsidiary.
Sources told the newspaper that Dreamer’s backers, including US VC Conviction, will be paid more than their investment. The company said that Superintelligence Labs head Alexandr Wang has been supporting Dream for a long time. Wang is also an early stage investor.
The startup showed its product to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg earlier this year. In a blog post, Singleton said Dreamer and Meta share a common future, “where billions of people have the power to create software that makes their lives better.
“The most important thing here is not the initial momentum, it’s what enabled people to do it,” he wrote in a LinkedIn post.
“People are building things they’ve wanted for years. They’re solving real, important problems that no traditional software company could ever prioritize, because they’re very smart, very articulate, very human.”
Additionally, Meta has reportedly hired a number of AI researchers from the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) and the University of Washington, including former Ai2 CEO Ali Farhadi. Farhadi resigned as CEO of the agency earlier this month.
Meta has reportedly spent hundreds of millions in salaries to pay its new top AI hires, including GitHub CEO Nat Friedman; Safe Superintelligence founder Daniel Gross; Apple’s former AI lead Ruoming Pang; and Think Machines Lab founder Andrew Tulloch.
Although, alongside these hires, the company has cut hundreds of jobs at its Superintelligence Labs, and is reportedly weighing 20pc of staff cuts across its global operations.
Earlier this month, Meta snapped up a ‘human free’ platform for AI agents called Moltbook, built using OpenClaw technology. In January, it took over Chinese startup Manus for up to $3bn.
The acquisition of Manus is currently being reviewed by Chinese authorities for possible violations of export control laws. The New York Times reports that the Chinese government is cracking down on people connected to the adoption.
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