Droid

assembled by @FactoryAI

[Matan Grinberg @matanSF]

If your daughter needs tutoring in algebra, you can probably find someone cheaper than Albert Einstein.

Giving every task to GPT5.5 or Opus 4.8 is overkill. Often times you can get the task done just as well, but 10x cheaper and 10x faster with a smaller model.

[Matan Grinberg @matanSF]

I am thrilled to share that @lilatretikov has joined the Board of Directors at Factory.

Lila was previously CEO of Wikipedia, deputy CTO of Microsoft, currently sits on the boards of UBS, Capgemini, and Volvo, and is Head of AI at NEA.

[Matan Grinberg @matanSF]

Madison Faulkner is stepping down from @FactoryAI's Board of Directors to join us as Head of Strategic Initiatives.

It is exceedingly rare for an investor to join a portfolio company. It takes unprecedented* conviction for a Board Director - one that led the Series B - to join.

[Matan Grinberg @matanSF]

Drop the .ai, try https://t.co/HVzSIeHrPs. It's cleaner

[Factory @FactoryAI]

The tests passed and the linters were green, yet the login form still broke in production.

Why? Because nobody actually clicked through it.

Today, we are launching Automated QA in Droids to fix this.

[Krishna Goutham @nkgoutham]

Kicking off an overnight mission on @droid
This one’s decently sized, without 37-40 milestones (?)

Wish me luck (and tokens! lol) - I will wake up with excitement for sure, tomorrow 🥳

[Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire]

Two doers, not legends

Vertical, not horizontal

[Eno Reyes @EnoReyes]

Agents of the future won't be invoked and discarded. They'll be persistent entities working for you around the clock. That takes three things: an amazing harness, a persistent environment, and governance to trust them with real autonomy. Factory now ships all three.

[Ainesh Chatterjee @ain3sh]

Harness is everything 😼 @droid 🚀

[0xSero @0xSero]

Thank you Droid, very nice.

[Factory @FactoryAI]

Today we're opening access to Droid Computers: persistent machines for remotely orchestrating Droids.

Spin one up in Factory's cloud or turn your machine into a Droid Computer. Either way, Droids have a dev environment with its own filesystem, credentials, and configurations.

[Matan Grinberg @matanSF]

Postcard from April 17, 2023.

Featuring our first office, our first logo, and young @EnoReyes

[doug leone @dougleone]

Love this company!

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Exclusive: Factory, which makes autonomous coding tools, is set to close a fundraising round that will value it at $1.5 billion as it seeks to compete with the likes of Anthropic, OpenAI and Cursor https://t.co/wcFmSi1Df6

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

This is an impressive software factory actually

[Matan Grinberg @matanSF]

https://t.co/OGzWHkbs1R

[Factory @FactoryAI]

Claude Opus 4.7 has arrived in Droid.

Available 50% off for all users through April 30th.

[Harry Stuckler @HarryStuck77]

I don't need Fast, Turbo or XTRA - I need COMPLETED @droid

[Tom Osman 🐦‍⬛ @tomosman]

I can honestly say Missions by @FactoryAI are single thing most people who want "long running" agent tasks are looking for.

Spec out what you want done (however big) and come back hours later to it done. And done properly.

@matanSF, @EnoReyes and squad cooked very hard here.

[Morgan @morganlinton]

People keep asking me why I think Droid is so cool, the BYOM concept is one reason.

If you don't know about it, worth reading. I have a Mac Studio I've been using w/this and it has been nothing short of amazing.