Howie Liu, co-founder and CEO of Airtable, has launched Hyperagent — a standalone AI Agent cloud platform. Since its public beta launch in April this year, it has garnered significant attention across social media. What sets Hyperagent apart is that its agents continuously learn skills and user preferences across multiple conversations instead of starting from scratch each time; every task session comes with its own cloud environment featuring a browser, Shell access, code execution capabilities, and integrations with major third-party services — no local setup required. Once built, agents can be deployed instantly to Slack to run workflows autonomously. These agents can handle tasks lasting several hours, while the platform includes built-in evaluation and consistency control mechanisms. Currently, Hyperagent runs its “Founding 500” program, offering $20,000 worth of inference credits to each of 500 founding teams aiming to build businesses centered around agent-driven operations — totaling $10 million in support. The application window is open for a limited time only. Howie Liu envisions creating “five-person unicorns”: companies valued at $100 billion led by teams of fewer than five members, powered entirely by fleets of AI agents.
Airtable now serves roughly 80% of Fortune 100 companies, holds over $1 billion in cash reserves, and boasts a current valuation of approximately $11.7 billion. Hyperagent operates independently alongside Superagent — another product unveiled by Airtable in January this year — forming a key pillar in the company’s broader transition toward becoming an AI-native platform.