{"id":188959,"date":"2024-05-08T15:26:30","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T20:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/bye-bye-bots-alteras-game-playing-ai-agents-get-backing-from-eric-schmidt"},"modified":"2024-05-08T15:26:30","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T20:26:30","slug":"bye-bye-bots-alteras-game-playing-ai-agents-get-backing-from-eric-schmidt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/bye-bye-bots-alteras-game-playing-ai-agents-get-backing-from-eric-schmidt","title":{"rendered":"Bye-bye bots: Altera\u2019s game-playing AI agents get backing from Eric Schmidt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bye-bye-bots-alteras-game-playing-ai-agents-get-backing-from-eric-schmidt.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Autonomous, AI-based players are coming to a gaming experience near you, and a new startup, <a href=\"https:\/\/altera.al\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Altera<\/a>, is joining the fray to build this new guard of AI agents.<\/p>\n<p>The company announced Wednesday that it raised $9 million in an oversubscribed seed round, co-led by First Spark Ventures (Eric Schmidt\u2019s deep-tech fund) and Patron (the seed stage fund co-founded by Riot Games alums).<\/p>\n<p>The funding follows Altera\u2019s previous raising a pre-seed $2 million from a16z SPEEDRUN and others in January of this year. Now, Altera wants to use the new capital to hire more scientists, engineers, and team members to help with product development and growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autonomous, AI-based players are coming to a gaming experience near you, and a new startup, Altera, is joining the fray to build this new guard of AI agents. The company announced Wednesday that it raised $9 million in an oversubscribed seed round, co-led by First Spark Ventures (Eric Schmidt\u2019s deep-tech fund) and Patron (the seed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}