{"id":252887,"date":"2026-07-21T19:43:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T19:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/21\/jack-dorsey-is-taking-on-slack-with-buzz-a-group-chat-platform-for-teams-and-their-ai-agents-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T19:43:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T19:43:41","slug":"jack-dorsey-is-taking-on-slack-with-buzz-a-group-chat-platform-for-teams-and-their-ai-agents-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/21\/jack-dorsey-is-taking-on-slack-with-buzz-a-group-chat-platform-for-teams-and-their-ai-agents-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Dorsey is taking on Slack with Buzz, a group chat platform for teams and their AI agents | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Twitter and Block co-founder Jack Dorsey announced a new app on Tuesday called Buzz<\/a>. Positioned as a challenger to Slack and GitHub, Buzz is a group chat platform for the workplace that puts humans and their AI agents in the same conversations.<\/p>\n

Dorsey wrote on X that Buzz is \u201cmodel-agnostic, decentralized, self-sovereign, and open source.\u201d This product seems to be more than just a Dorsey passion project. According to its website, Buzz was built by Dorsey\u2019s company Block, which also operates products like Square, Cash App, Afterpay, and Tidal.<\/p>\n

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we’re launching BUZZ!<\/p>\n

a new groupchat platform for teams of people and agents of all sizes, built to reduce our dependency on slack and github. model-agnostic, decentralized, self-sovereign, and open source. \ud83d\udc1dhttps:\/\/t.co\/8IaMVeTQNo<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 jack (@jack) July 21, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

As startups increasingly rely on AI agents to get work done, it can be challenging for employees to collaborate on various tasks across different platforms. Buzz\u2019s utility is that it merges several different workflows into one workspace. It looks a lot like Slack, but with native AI agents and the ability to manage GitHub projects all from the same window.<\/p>\n

Since the platform is open source, developers can make their own Buzz instance feel more customized to the needs and workflows of their specific team. If a team needs a new feature, they can build it and deploy it on their own, since they have full access to the source code.<\/p>\n

Image Credits:<\/strong>Buzz (opens in a new window)<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dorsey isn\u2019t the only entrepreneur trying to pursue AI-native alternatives or additions to Slack. Paradigm partner and CTO Georgios Konstantopoulos recently unveiled a similar open source product called Centaur<\/a>, which he describes as a \u201cvirtual employee<\/a>\u201d that runs either inside of Slack or via an API.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of room for improvement for agents that live in Slack and can do more work than just coding for teams. In the enterprise setting, this means that you\u2019ll want to self-host for security and control, and you want people to use it in Slack,\u201d Konstantopoulos wrote on X. <\/p>\n

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Read our blog to get a deep dive on Why Centaur and How It Works.<\/p>\n

My TL;DR is that Centaur is the best way to AGI pill your team and to 100x your team’s productivity.<\/p>\n

There’s a lot of room for improvement for agents that live in Slack and can do more work than just coding for\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2014 Georgios Konstantopoulos (@gakonst) May 21, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

For newer startups that are using AI agents and don\u2019t have an established presence on Slack, Buzz (or its competitors) could be worth investigating. But Buzz itself admits that it is in its \u201cearly stages,\u201d so it\u2019s probably not a good idea to port your team over just yet.<\/p>\n

Buzz\u2019s free desktop app is available now for macOS, Windows, and Linux, and the code for the app has been uploaded to GitHub.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Twitter and Block co-founder Jack Dorsey announced a new app on Tuesday called Buzz. Positioned as a challenger to Slack and GitHub, Buzz is a group chat platform for the workplace that puts humans and their AI agents in the same conversations. Dorsey wrote on X that Buzz is \u201cmodel-agnostic, decentralized, self-sovereign, and open source.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":252888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-252887","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}