Photon为移动应用办葬礼，获450万美元种子轮融资以用agent取代App
原标题：Photon held a funeral for mobile apps. Now it has $4.5M to help replace them with agents.
AI 摘要
AI 初创公司 Photon 在旧金山一座教堂为移动应用举办了一场“葬礼”，以此表达其认为 agent 将取代 App 的判断。该公司帮助开发者在 iMessage 和 WhatsApp 等消息平台上构建 agent，目前已获得 450 万美元种子轮融资，由 Gradient 和 A* 联合领投，Vercel、红杉中国等参投。Photon 称其已吸引超过 4 万名开发者注册，四个月内收入增长 10 倍，并推出统一 API、可扩展渠道框架、CLI 和可观测性套件等托管平台工具。
正文节选
The AI startup Photon is so sure that agents will eventually come to replace mobile apps that it held a funeral for the latter — yes, a real funeral in a church, with speeches and everything. Photon, which helps developers build agents that work over iMessage and WhatsApp, now has $4.5 million in seed funding to develop its products. The raise comes after the company signed up over 40,000 developers and grew its revenue 10x in just four months, it says. Photon co-founder and CEO Daniel Tian said