Jack Dorsey is taking on Slack with Buzz, a group chat platform for teams and their AI agents

杰克·多西推出 Buzz，这是一款面向团队及其 AI 代理的群聊平台，旨在挑战 Slack

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 “model-agnostic, decentralized, self-sovereign, and open source.” Twitter 和 Block 的联合创始人杰克·多西（Jack Dorsey）周二宣布推出一款名为 Buzz 的新应用。Buzz 定位为 Slack 和 GitHub 的挑战者，是一个工作场所群聊平台，旨在将人类及其 AI 代理置于同一对话中。多西在 X 上写道，Buzz 是“模型无关、去中心化、自主权且开源的”。

This product seems to be more than just a Dorsey passion project. According to its website, Buzz was built by Dorsey’s company Block, which also operates products like Square, Cash App, Afterpay, and Tidal. 这款产品似乎不仅仅是多西个人的兴趣项目。根据其官网显示，Buzz 由多西旗下的公司 Block 开发，该公司还运营着 Square、Cash App、Afterpay 和 Tidal 等产品。

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’s 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. 随着初创公司越来越依赖 AI 代理来完成工作，员工在不同平台间协作处理各项任务变得颇具挑战。Buzz 的实用之处在于它将多种不同的工作流合并到了一个工作空间中。它看起来很像 Slack，但内置了 AI 代理，并且可以在同一个窗口中管理 GitHub 项目。

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. 由于该平台是开源的，开发人员可以根据特定团队的需求和工作流，定制属于自己的 Buzz 实例。如果团队需要新功能，由于拥有完整的源代码访问权限，他们可以自行构建并部署。

Dorsey isn’t 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, which he describes as a “virtual employee” that runs either inside of Slack or via an API. 多西并不是唯一试图寻求 AI 原生替代方案或 Slack 补充产品的企业家。Paradigm 合伙人兼 CTO Georgios Konstantopoulos 最近发布了一款类似的开源产品 Centaur，他将其描述为一种“虚拟员工”，既可以在 Slack 内部运行，也可以通过 API 运行。

“There’s 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’ll want to self-host for security and control, and you want people to use it in Slack,” Konstantopoulos wrote on X. “对于那些存在于 Slack 中、且能为团队做更多工作（不仅仅是编码）的代理来说，还有很大的改进空间。在企业环境中，这意味着你需要为了安全和控制进行自托管，同时也希望人们能在 Slack 中使用它，”Konstantopoulos 在 X 上写道。

For newer startups that are using AI agents and don’t have an established presence on Slack, Buzz (or its competitors) could be worth investigating. But Buzz itself admits that it is in its “early stages,” so it’s probably not a good idea to port your team over just yet. Buzz’s free desktop app is available now for macOS, Windows, and Linux, and the code for the app has been uploaded to GitHub. 对于那些正在使用 AI 代理且尚未在 Slack 上建立固定工作流的新兴初创公司来说，Buzz（或其竞争对手）值得一试。但 Buzz 本身也承认目前处于“早期阶段”，因此现在就将整个团队迁移过去可能并不是一个好主意。Buzz 的免费桌面应用现已支持 macOS、Windows 和 Linux，其代码也已上传至 GitHub。