Noah Shinn
Noah Shinn is the founder of Instinct, an AI assistant startup offered by Spear Street Technology. He previously worked as a research scientist at Sierra, one of the company's earliest employees, and conducted machine learning and programming language research at Northeastern University and MIT. He is best known as the lead author of Reflexion, a 2023 NeurIPS paper on language agents with verbal reinforcement learning, and as a co-developer of τ-bench, an agent evaluation benchmark presented at ICLR 2025.
“I think that all of software is going to collapse down into, into, um, honestly a single very, very easy to use interface.”
Source→“Instinct is a personal AI agent accessible via phone, text, email, and voice with no dedicated app.”
Source→“I think it's a great product... but I think it's fundamentally different.”
Source→“We spent zero dollars on marketing so far... about 10 percent of the audience... are making a decision to give up one of their five valuable invites to somebody else... at a 10 percent rate.”
Source→“Raised $250 million at a $2.5 billion valuation... in talks to raise again at a $10 billion valuation”
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