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Altera uses GPT-4o to build a new area of human collaboration
In 2023, when OpenAI’s language model became broadly available, Yang quit his job as an assistant professor at MIT to start Altera.AL(opens in a new window), a research lab focused on building what they call “digital humans”: a new way for people to interact with agents that will have fundamental human qualities.
Yang, now Altera’s CEO, envisions a future where AI agents don’t just assist; soon, he believes, they’ll interact and collaborate with humans, and even experience emotions. Along with his three co-founders, Dr. Andrew Ahn, Nico Christie, and Shuying Luo, Yang has built Altera’s first product with GPT‑4o: the first autonomous agents that can play Minecraft(opens in a new window) with you, just like a friend.