AI agent startup Dust raised $40 million in a Series B round, SiliconANGLE reported on Sunday.

Dust is focused on building a “multiplayer” ecosystem in which AI agents collaborate, moving away from employees relying on individual chatbots.

Dust says most companies currently use AI in a “single-player” way. Each employee uses different chatbots, copilots and AI assistants independently, with little collaboration among AI agents. For example, if an employee asks a chatbot for specific customer information, the result stays only in that employee’s personal chat window. Dust says a lack of shared context forces multiple people to repeat the same work and prevents organisational knowledge from accumulating.

Dust’s platform supports sharing knowledge across an organisation by shifting AI agents from personal assistants to team colleagues. It also has built-in governance functions for this.

Dust is also developing an AI Operator to help non-technical staff build and deploy specialised agents without support from an engineering department. Gabriel Hubert (가브리엘 위베르), Dust’s co-founder and CEO, said, “Individual models or AI assistants will not change the way companies work.” He said, “A completely new system is needed in which people and agents access the same information and capabilities together under governance, and become true collaborators with the same context, notifications, outputs and goals. That is what we call multiplayer AI, and what Dust is building.”