Instinct raised a $250M Series B co-led by Index Ventures and Benchmark at a $2.5B valuation. Still in invite-only beta, the personal AI assistant startup uses a pure-software interface (SMS and phone calls) to sidestep the hardware failures of Rabbit and Humane.
tinyhumansai/openhuman uses a local-first Memory Tree to compress your digital life and orchestrate multiple agents, already at 37k stars in early beta; Vercel Labs' fx is a native coding agent CLI written in Zig at under 8 MiB; NVIDIA open-sources labs-OO-Agents, packing an agent's prompt/tool/workflow into a single Python class; CopilotKit/OpenBot containerizes agents with governance gates — every action is reviewed before execution. Agno v3.0.0 is a major breaking release requiring database migration, and Haystack v3.1.0 adds multi-agent delegation via AgentTool and context compression via CompactionHook.