Parsec founders raise $8.75M from a16z to give AI agents their own PCs
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Giving AI agents access to pooled high-end remote PCs is a bet that agents will be first-class users in your infra, not just API calls. Start cataloging which of your workflows could be handed to agents on shared workstations instead of provisioning more human-only machines.
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