💻 Technology Sep 8, 2026 · Mat Honan

This AI entrepreneur is developing agents that can plan ahead for the unexpected

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Danijar Hafner’s office in San Francisco’s SoMa district sits mostly empty. His brand-new startup is still in stealth mode and doesn’t even have its name on the door. On the day I visit, there’s only one other person there, and little in the way of furniture. But what it lacks in decor, it makes up for in robots. Humanoids of various shapes and sizes hang like marionettes from racks that run down the center of the wide-open space.



While Hafner, 31, won’t say too much about his new venture jus

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