Agentic AI could be the next big thing in the artificial intelligence race. Following the success of OpenClaw – an open-source platform to build AI agents – every major tech firm wants a piece of this piece. Now, Meta has announced its latest move to bolster its agentic AI development by hiring the team behind the AI startup Dreamer.
The Dreamer team, including co-founders Hugo Barra, David Singleton, and Nicholas Jitkoff, will join Meta’s Superintelligence Labs group led by Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang.
The three founders have previously had stints at Google. Barra also worked at Meta and Xiaomi in the past, while Singleton was the chief technology officer of the startup Stripe. Following the announcement, Dreamer will remain a separate legal entity, and Meta will license its technology.
What will Meta get from this deal?
Dreamer, which launched earlier this year, enables users to create custom AI agents to automate tasks such as managing emails and calendars. David Singleton wrote on X that the startup already had thousands of users. Dreamer previously raised $56 million at a $500 million valuation.
Following the rise of AI agents, Meta is pushing to build its own agentic AI platform. The Mark Zuckerberg-led firm acquired Moltbook – the AI-only social media platform – earlier this month, with the Moltbook team joining the Superintelligence Labs.
Meta also announced that it was acquiring Manus AI, another agentic AI platform. The deal is reportedly worth upwards of $2 billion.
Meta reportedly plans to build AI agents that are personalised, always active, and integrated across devices.
Meta is going all in on AI agents
During a January earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg stated that the company was making “profound” progress with its AI agents. Zuckerberg himself is believed to be using an AI CEO agent that helps him do his job.
MSL chief Alexandr Wang previously described AI agents as offering “some of the greatest opportunity to actually give a more powerful version of AI to every single person in the world.”
Meta’s latest moves come at a time when competition is growing in the agentic AI space. OpenAI recently hired Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw, to work on AI agents. Nvidia has also launched its own agentic AI platform, NemoClaw. On the other hand, Anthropic is giving more agentic capabilities to Claude. Claude can now get complete access to your computer, and be controlled remotely.
