Adept ACT
Founded 2022 by David Luan and fellow ex-OpenAI / Google researchers. Built ACT-1 / ACT-2 multimodal action transformers for computer-use. In June 2024 Amazon hired Luan and co-founders (Odena, Nye, Elsen, Szot) into Amazon AGI and licensed Adept's technology (acqui-hire, not a full acquisition); Adept continues with former head of engineering Zach Brock as CEO, refocused on agentic AI solutions. Important historical entry — ACT models inspired Anthropic Computer Use + OpenAI Operator.
Active · Verified 2026-10-26 · fresh as of 2026-10-26 · 20 cited facts, 4 with a third-party source · 1 recorded change · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Tier
- T3
- Latest release
- not applicable — orchestration platform, not memory product fix
- License
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- GitHub
- not applicable — no GitHub repo fix
- Pricing
- Pre-acq: enterprise pilot only vendor fix
- Funding
- total $415M+ raised (~$1B valuation) before June 2024 Amazon licensing deal + founder hires (terms undisclosed) third-party fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-26 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- commercial vendor fix
When to use
Optimised for: (historical) computer-use action transformers; (post-acq) Amazon AGI roadmap
Anti-fit: not applicable — orchestration platform, not memory product
Pros & cons
Pros
Pioneered computer-use action-transformer concept (ACT-1 was first widely-shown demo of LLM controlling desktop apps); strong founding-team pedigree.
Cons
Lost commercial momentum to Amazon acqui-hire June-2024; products effectively shelved (Adept entity continues but no longer shipping new ACT models); inspired but didn't capture the computer-use market.
Claims & capabilities
Amazon hired CEO David Luan and co-founders Odena, Nye, Elsen and Szot into Amazon AGI and licensed Adept's technology (2024-06-28); Adept had raised $415M+ at ~$1B valuation
Technical surface
- API surface
- not applicable — orchestration platform, not memory product
- Backend storage
- not applicable — orchestration platform, not memory product
- Deployment
- not applicable — orchestration platform, not memory product
- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
- not applicable — orchestration platform, not memory product
- MCP
- not applicable — orchestration platform, not memory product
- A2A
- not applicable — orchestration platform, not memory product
- OpenTelemetry
- not applicable — orchestration platform, not memory product
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Sources (19 cited facts, 4 third-party)
Each fact links to the page it came from; the badge says who published it (how to read sources).
- What it is Computer-use / workflow-automation agent (Adept now part of Amazon AGI 2024) vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Founded 2022 by David Luan and fellow ex-OpenAI / Google researchers. Built ACT-1 / ACT-… third-party
- Claims / benefits Amazon hired CEO David Luan and co-founders Odena, Nye, Elsen and Szot into Amazon AGI a… third-party
- Created 2022 (founded); 2022-09 (ACT-1 demo); 2024-06 (Amazon acqui-hire) vendor
- Funding total $415M+ raised (~$1B valuation) before June 2024 Amazon licensing deal + founder hi… third-party
- Pricing Pre-acq: enterprise pilot only vendor
- HQ San Francisco, US vendor
- Founders / pedigree David Luan (CEO) with co-founders Augustus Odena, Maxwell Nye, Erich Elsen and Kelsey Sz… third-party
- Agent abstraction action-transformer (vision + action prediction) vendor
- LLM lock single-vendor (Adept-proprietary ACT models historically) vendor
- Optimised for (historical) computer-use action transformers; (post-acq) Amazon AGI roadmap vendor
- Adjacent infrastructure Amazon AGI (parent post-acquisition); spiritual predecessor to Anthropic Computer Use + … vendor
- Pros Pioneered computer-use action-transformer concept (ACT-1 was first widely-shown demo of … vendor
- Cons Lost commercial momentum to Amazon acqui-hire June-2024; products effectively shelved (A… vendor
- Project & sources www.adept.ai/ vendor
- cost-pricing-model subscription vendor
- cost-last-verified 2026-06-29 vendor
- licensing-bucket commercial vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
What changed
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- 2026-10-23
- Funding / ownership “$415M total raised pre-acq (Series B 2023 — General Catalyst, Spark, Greylock); Amazon acqui-hire June 2024 (terms ~$300-500M reported but undisclosed)” → “total $415M+ raised (~$1B valuation) before June 2024 Amazon licensing deal + founder hires (terms undisclosed)” source
Related systems
References (2)
- Anthropic Claude (foundation models) depends on at runtime — adjacent-infrastructure cell: Amazon AGI (parent post-acquisition); spiritual predecessor to Anthropic Computer Use + OpenAI Operator + Project Mariner
- OpenAI GPT family (GPT-5 / GPT-4o / o3 / o4) depends on at runtime — adjacent-infrastructure cell: Amazon AGI (parent post-acquisition); spiritual predecessor to Anthropic Computer Use + OpenAI Operator + Project Mariner