Former OpenAI Codex engineer Daniel Edrisian left to found Blackstar, securing $12 million in seed funding to build AI hardware.

ME News message. On April 23 (UTC+8), according to Beating monitoring data, OpenAI Codex team engineer Daniel Edrisian announced that he is leaving to found a hardware company, Blackstar Computers, positioning it as “a new type of computer that understands users.” The company completed a $12 million seed round, led by Abstract, with participation from SV Angel, Naval Ravikant, Chapter One, and Timeless. Edrisian said that software issues have largely been resolved and that building applications is already easy; the next improvement in how humans and AI communicate needs a change to the operating system. Blackstar’s website describes the company as “rebuilding computing from the ground up: hardware, software, and the interactions between them.” The team currently has 8 people, working in person, with offices in San Francisco and Shenzhen. Hiring roles include electrical engineering, embedded systems, mechanical engineering, software, machine learning, and industrial design. Edrisian previously founded Alex, an AI programming tool for Apple’s Xcode, and after the team was acquired by OpenAI in 2025, he joined the Codex division. (Source: BlockBeats)
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