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Adept

Adept pioneered Action Transformer (ACT-1) foundation models, building AI agents that operate desktop software, browsers, and enterprise databases like human knowledge workers.

Country
United States
Products
1
Reports
4
Last reviewed
Aug 2026

Overview

What this company is, what it builds, and who it serves.

Adept is an artificial intelligence research and product company founded in 2022 in San Francisco by former OpenAI VP of Engineering David Luan alongside Transformer co-inventors Ashish Vaswani and Niki Parmar. Adept focuses on building general intelligence that takes action on computers.

Who it serves

Enterprise operations teams, software automation engineers, and organizations seeking autonomous UI agent execution.

What it builds

Adept ACT-1 model, Fuyu multimodal agent architecture, and enterprise software workflow automation platform.

Why It Matters

Adept pioneered Action Transformer (ACT-1) foundation models, building AI agents that operate desktop software, browsers, and enterprise databases like human knowledge workers.

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Adept

Technologies

Capabilities

  • Scalable domain-specific neural network architectures
  • Enterprise-grade data protection, security, and compliance
  • High-throughput API access and real-time inference processing
  • Deep integration into modern developer and cloud infrastructure

Features

  • Adept ACT-1 model
  • High-performance developer API with comprehensive SDKs
  • Enterprise workspace collaboration and role-based access control
  • Continuous automated model evaluation and audit logging

Country

United States

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Adept known for?

Adept is known for pioneering Action Transformers (ACT-1), teaching AI models how to interact with computer interfaces, enterprise software, and web browsers using clicks and keystrokes.

Who founded Adept?

Adept was founded in 2022 by David Luan (former VP of Engineering at OpenAI), Niki Parmar (co-author of the Transformer paper), and Ashish Vaswani (co-author of the Transformer paper).

What is the Fuyu model architecture?

Fuyu is a lightweight multimodal architecture developed by Adept that feeds raw image patches directly into transformer decoders without complex vision encoders, enabling rapid screen comprehension.

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