Embedded Intelligence – a company that is building the interface of record for consumers to interact with AI – announced a $10 million seed round led by General Catalyst, Valor, SV Angel, Conviction Embed, and Medal.
AI has the potential to transform the way we all live and work, but society is at a crossroads with how we actually interact with this technology. Web browsers have been slowing down and this causes the use of AI browser based-apps like ChatGPT and Claude to feel impersonal and surface-level.
Embedded Intelligence is addressing this issue through an embedded AI tool (named Highlight AI) that sits locally on your desktop to provide contextual assistance and elevate your use of AI to maximize your time. With Highlight AI, users can trigger powerful AI workflows, irrespective of language and without coding skills or prompt engineering.
Inspired by Andrej Karpathy’s vision of an LLM OS, Embedded Intelligence built HighlightAI – which is a capture-based interface based on a secure, intermediary layer that sits between your OS outputs and an LLM, paired with a Prompt Library, and App Runtime for Web Apps, enabling you to run prompts and your existing web apps as native, context-aware assistants. So your collection of prompts and apps start to feel like your personal AI: one that deeply gets your world. Through native context, many prompts become as powerful as apps. And you no longer need interfaces to summarize a call or explain code.
KEY QUOTES:
“We’re at a crossroads in how humanity interacts with AI. We either continue on a path that puts AI increasingly in charge, or create a path where humans remain in the driver’s seat. Whether we stay in control depends on how fast we embed intelligence into our existing workflows. Over the next 5 years, we will all exist below the model’s API as they delegate to us, or stay in control by leveling up. Our mission is to make humanity exponentially faster, and enable you to master this new, fast-paced world.”
- Embedded Intelligence statement
