“Runner H,” the company’s first product, is supposed to automate “complex and repetitive workflows.”
The French artificial intelligence (AI) start-up H launched its first product this Tuesday, called “Runner H”, intended to automate “complex and repetitive workflows”she announced in a press release. This type of AI, referred to as agentic, is designed to act autonomously, planning actions and making decisions to achieve specific goals defined by the user. The objective is to “allow everyone to refocus on what is essential, by automating ordinary tasks”explained Charles Kantor, director of the company, quoted in the press release.
H was launched in May by several former Google Deepmind employees, the branch of the American giant specializing in AI, with an initial fundraising of $220 million (€202.7 million). Among its investors are French businessmen Bernard Arnault and Xavier Niel, Amazon, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, the Accel fund, Samsung and Russian-born Israeli entrepreneur Yuri Milner.
The start-up, also financed by the French public investment bank Bpifrance, experienced turmoil with the departure this summer of three of its co-founders, out of a total of five, due to “operational disagreements”according to a company publication on the LinkedIn network. Specializing in a new generation of multimodal models dedicated to action aimed at businesses and individuals, the group, based in Paris, indicates that developers can register on a waiting list to access the beta version private of “Runner H”.
