Published Feb 8th, 2023 10:00PM ESTClay Bavor, Google’s Vice President of Labs, and Bret Taylor, the former co-CEO of Salesforce, have announced that they are starting a new AI company. The two took to LinkedIn today to make the announcement, confirming that Bavor was leaving the tech giant after an 18-year career., Bavor said that the new company is being formed to use AI in order to “solve some of the most important problems in business.
Bret and I have known each other since our early days at Google, and I have always admired his keen product sense and entrepreneurial spirit, his technical chops, and, above all, his character and integrity. We share an obsession with recent advances in AI, and we’re excited to build a new company to apply AI to solve some of the most important problems in business.
Megan Quinn, an angel investor and board director for Handshake, Niantic, Pendo, and ROVR, took to Twitter to congratulate the pair on their venture.