This Week in AI Native Companies #2: The context layer gets funded
This Week in AI Native Companies #2: The context layer gets fundedBuzz triples in seven days, two $10M seeds land 48 hours apart, and behavior specs go open source.Michael MayernickAug 01, 20261ShareEvery week I write this from inside a company that runs on AI agents, about what we’re seeing in the field. This week the field put real money and real numbers on the board.For the filmed companion, Matt Nicosia joins me - Head of Data and Ops for GTM at Gray Swan, and before that the builder of Zayer in the context space, so he’s lived most of this week’s stories firsthand. Block’s humans-and-agents workspace went from about 6,700 GitHub stars to 18,400 in seven days, shipping six releases along the way (v0.4.20 to v0.5.2).
- ▪This Week in AI Native Companies #2: The context layer gets fundedBuzz triples in seven days, two $10M seeds land 48 hours apart, and behavior specs go open source.Michael MayernickAug 01, 20261ShareEvery week I write this from inside a com
- ▪This week the field put real money and real numbers on the board.For the filmed companion, Matt Nicosia joins me - Head of Data and Ops for GTM at Gray Swan, and before that the builder of Zayer in the context space, so he’s lived most of t
- ▪Block’s humans-and-agents workspace went from about 6,700 GitHub stars to 18,400 in seven days, shipping six releases along the way (v0.4.20 to v0.5.2).
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This Week in AI Native Companies #2: The context layer gets fundedBuzz triples in seven days, two $10M seeds land 48 hours apart, and behavior specs go open source.Michael MayernickAug 01, 20261ShareEvery week I write this from inside a company that runs on AI agents, about what we’re seeing in the field. This week the field put real money and real numbers on the board.For the filmed companion, Matt Nicosia joins me - Head of Data and Ops for GTM at Gray Swan, and before that the builder of Zayer in the context space, so he’s lived most of this week’s stories firsthand.
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