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Jack Dorsey unveils Buzz to rival Slack and GitHub
Block-backed Buzz puts employees and AI agents in the same team chats, with open-source code and desktop apps available now.
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Jack Dorsey has introduced Buzz, a new workplace chat app aimed at reducing teams' reliance on Slack and GitHub by putting people and their AI agents into the same conversations. The Twitter and Block co-founder said on X that Buzz is “model-agnostic, decentralized, self-sovereign, and open source.”
According to Buzz’s website, the product was built by Block, the company behind Square, Cash App, Afterpay, and Tidal. The app combines team chat, AI-native workflows, and GitHub project management in a single interface. Because it is open source, developers can customize their own Buzz deployments and add features tailored to their team’s needs.
Buzz enters a growing field of efforts to rethink workplace collaboration around AI agents. Georgios Konstantopoulos, partner and CTO at Paradigm, recently launched a similar open-source product called Centaur, which he describes as a “virtual employee” that runs inside Slack or through an API.
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“There’s a lot of room for improvement for agents that live in Slack and can do more work than just coding for teams. In the enterprise setting, this means that you’ll want to self-host for security and control, and you want people to use it in Slack.”
For startups building around AI agents without a deep Slack footprint, Buzz may be worth a look. But the company says the product is still in its “early stages,” making it hard to recommend a full migration today.
Buzz’s free desktop app is available now for macOS, Windows, and Linux, and its code has already been published on GitHub.
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via TechCrunch
