AI Made Every Individual Stronger and Every Team More Fragmented. Yimao Zhou Is Building the OS to Reverse That

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Yimao Zhou, 23-year-old founder of Emagen AI, believes today’s AI agent startups are accelerating individual productivity while ignoring the real bottleneck: team coordination. His product Cagen is an “OS Level Agent” that inverts the human-AI relationship, letting AI drive workflows and call on humans for judgment. Backed by MiraclePlus founder Qi Lu, Zhou predicts most AI agent startups will be dead in three years and that the minimum viable team size for a serious business is about to collapse.

The 23-year-old founder of Emagen AI argues the entire agent industry is optimizing the wrong unit. His answer is an operating system where AI drives the work and calls on humans, not the other way around.

Every week, another AI agent startup launches. They write code, draft emails, generate slides, analyze data. Each one promises to make you more productive. Yimao Zhou thinks they’re all solving the wrong problem.

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