[Former OpenAI Engineer Founds Blackstar and Completes $12 Million Seed Round Financing] Odaily Planet Daily News: Former OpenAI Codex team engineer Daniel Edrisian has announced his departure and the founding of AI hardware company Blackstar Computers. The company has completed a $12 million seed round financing led by Abstract, with participation from SV Angel, Naval Ravikant, Chapter One, and Timeless. Blackstar is positioned as a new type of computing device, aiming to reconstruct the computing experience through hardware, software, and interaction layers. Edrisian stated that while software development has matured, further advancements in human-AI interaction require innovation at the operating system level. The company currently has a team of about 8 people, distributed across San Francisco and Shenzhen, and has not yet launched any public products.