This new company believes email is the secret to user-friendly AI assistants

AI companies are touting agents as the next big disruptor in the workplace, but experts caution that they still have a long way to go. AI agents often struggle with decision-making, hallucinate frequently, lack the ability to cooperate with other agents, fail to maintain confidentiality, and integrate poorly with existing systems.

Industry pioneers like Andrej Karpathy and Ali Ghodsi believe that human involvement is crucial for the success of agents, similar to the deployment of autonomous vehicles.

A promising startup called Mixus is aiming to address these challenges with its AI agent platform. By allowing users to interact with agents directly from their email or Slack, Mixus is making it easier for people to incorporate agents into their workflow. With a focus on ease of use, Mixus is simplifying the process of creating and managing agents, offering a more accessible approach compared to existing AI companies.
Built on a combination of Anthropic’s Claude 4 and OpenAI’s o3, Mixus agents also have access to the web, which Magzimof says can be tapped for tasks like live research or monitoring. He described it as “Google Alerts on steroids.”

Mixus appears to be less of a productivity tool and more like a tireless digital colleague — yet another ambitious attempt to reimagine AI as a collaborator. If it works as advertised, your next “coworker” might not be human, but it might get through your inbox faster than you do.

Correction: This article was updated to reflect how much Mixus has raised to date.