Startup humans& Ships Collaborative Model Ampersand, Social App Boba and Faster FTL Decoding

Startup humans& announced three releases in one week: Ampersand, a 700B-parameter "collaborator model" built on Persimmon with an API for long-horizon multi-person collaboration, plus social product Boba and FTL decoding that speeds up inference by about 10%.

2026-10-24 ~ 2026-10-24 · 3 related posts

• humans& launches Ampersand, a 'collaborator' model it says beats frontier models — gharik · 2026-10-24
• humans& ships collaborator model Ampersand, social product Boba, and open-sources 10% FTL decode speedup — ericzelikman · 2026-10-24

1 near-duplicate retellings: ericzelikman