Outerlimit Raises $16 Million to Stop Rogue AI Agents From Causing Harm
Autonomous agentic AI has a habit of going destructively rogue. It is unlikely we can stop this. Outerlimit has a solution focused on preventing any harm from rogue agents.
New York-based Outerlimit has emerged from stealth with $16 million pre-seed funding raised from AlbionVC, Evolution Equity Partners, Crane Venture Partners and a number of individual angel investors. Founded by Tony Pepper, Neil Larkins, and Peter Vincent, the firm offers a decentralized security and authorization layer to secure autonomous agentic AI.
Enterprises are rapidly adopting autonomous agents to increase the speed of decisions and automation of actions. As the underlying AI models become more powerful (but remain built on probability rather than known truth), these autonomous agents are used for more and more complex purposes with wide-ranging access to business identity and credentials. However, as the business purpose of agents becomes more complex, it becomes correspondingly more difficult to define and...
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