Billionaire-Backed French AI Startup H Loses Three Founders (1)

H, a French artificial intelligence startup backed by a bevy of billionaires and venture capital firms, has lost three of its five co-founders before even releasing a product.

The startup cited “operational differences” as the reason for the departures in a post on LinkedIn.

The company formed earlier this year in Paris with the ambitious goal of developing autonomous agents — systems which can perform a range of tasks —that the startup said would outperform existing AI models. That pitch drew considerable investor interest, in large part due to the startup recruiting four seasoned scientists from Google DeepMind, Alphabet ...