Flapping Airplanes wants to train AI with less data and get more out of each chip.
Phaze, started by the team behind remote desktop firm Parsec, raised an $8.75M seed round led by a16z. It lets employees and AI agents use powerful remote computers, so companies can share workstations instead of buying one for each person.
Phaze, a startup from the founders of remote desktop company Parsec, has raised an $8.75M seed round led by a16z, the company said on Wednesday . Indie, NextView, Makers Fund and Lerer Hippeau also invested.
The Utah-based company lets people and AI agents use powerful computers from anywhere. Designers and engineers can run demanding 3D and design software on a remote workstation, while AI agents can control a machine’s screen and apps.
“ The computer sitting on your desk shouldn’t determine what compute you can access, ” said chief executive Benjy Boxer.
Phaze’s bet is that companies waste money on idle hardware. Instead of buying each employee a top-end workstation, they could pool machines and hand them out as needed, to staff or to agents.
Agents connect through MCP, a common standard for linking AI to tools, which Phaze still labels experimental. In one demo, a Slack bot takes an IT support request, logs into the user’s computer and calls in a human when it gets stuck. Agents get only the access their users have.
Boxer’s previous company, Parsec, was bought by Unity for $320M in 2021.
Others are also building places for agents to work. Baseten bought Blaxel , which makes sandboxes for AI agents, in September, and Perplexity can turn a Mac mini into an always-on agent . The demand is real: AI agents helped sell out Apple’s Mac mini in the US this spring.
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