Birth of BabyAGI

BlogApr 22, 2026

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Fascinated by the #HustleGPT movement, where people are using ChatGPT as their cofounder, I asked myself if we could build an “AI founder” that could run a company autonomously. I came up with a base architecture, which I described to ChatGPT and started building. About 50 prompts later, I sharedthis working prototype.

Interestingly, I found that you could provide any objective (not just to start a company). You can see it researching various ways to make the world a better placehere.

The response was wild. It started with one friend calling it AGI, then another calling it Skynet, then the AI doomers found it. I jokingly asked the autonomous agent tocreate as many paperclips as possible–…

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