Instinct AI Assistant Hits $2.5 Billion Valuation with Stripe Payments
Founder Noah Shinn reports users spend over $1300 monthly on purchases via the agent.
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Noah Shinn, founder of Instinct, described the AI as a personal agent reached by text or call that controls a phone and computer like a human user. He announced a Stripe partnership to handle purchases after noting that users making buys through Instinct spend over $1300 per month on average. Patrick Collison posted about texting the agent to buy items online. Jane Manchun Wong reported that Instinct is developing a shortcut turning the iPhone Action button into a voice input for the agent.
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Noah Shinn@noahrshinnI’m Noah, the founder of Instinct. Instinct is a personal agent that we’ve been building for the past few months. The interface is simple: there are no new interfaces. You can text or call it. It's trained to use a phone and a computer in the same way that humans do. Instinct…
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PC Patrick Collison@patrickcInstinct and Stripe @link: text your agent to buy things around the internet. https://twitter.com/noahrshinn/status/2093368510449877180
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KA Klaus Arent@klausarentI use it as my chief of staff. I've given Instinct access to my PC, and it currently manages four AIs. Fable handles the planning and has various peers with their respective strengths. Codex, Grok, Kimi and his own, such as Opus and Sonnet. No joke. I've reduced my computer time…
DA Dapper@DapperMan11@noahrshinn You haven’t built anything special 😂 y’all ridiculous…no one is going to use this crap In flyover country as you call it. More crap built by immigrants stealing wealth from real American 🇺🇸 founders. Fund REAL Americans you racist VCs in Silicon Valley
JS Jacky Sun@jackybuilds@wongmjane It's a much cleaner UX. You don't have to do a ton of setup like openclaw and it's more powerful than poke from what I've seen. Great timing and GTM as well
DA Dhruv Arora@damndhruv@wongmjane No brainer. I have had it connected to GPT for over a year now. Instinct is much more appropriate