the rumor circulating is that Instinct’s small team, which includes an early Sierra researcher named Noah Shinn, is currently raising a Series A round of funding to buy more compute and open its waitlist. Like Poke before it, which was recently sold to Cognition, Instinct seems to be orchestrating off-the-shelf models with some specialized fine-tuning and tool use. It’s unusually capable and proactive at web-related tasks. There are a lot of little nice touches that help onboard a user more quickly, like the agent automatically researching your background while you’re setting it up.