[AI Hardware Company Blackstar Completes $12 Million Seed Round Financing, Led by Abstract] According to Golden Finance, on April 23, former OpenAI Codex team engineer Daniel Edrisian announced his resignation 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 positions itself as a provider of next-generation computing devices, aiming to redefine the computing experience through hardware, software, and interaction layers. Edrisian stated that while software development has reached maturity, further advancements in human-AI interaction require innovation at the operating system level. The company currently has a team of about eight people, based in San Francisco and Shenzhen, and has not yet launched any public products.