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Positioned as... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/jack-dorsey-is-taking-on-slack-with-buzz-a-group-chat-platform-for-teams-and-their-ai-agents-flh6pfdd9 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/fLH6PFDd9.png og:image:alt: Jack Dorsey is taking on Slack with Buzz, a group chat platform for teams and their AI agents og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Jack Dorsey is taking on Slack with Buzz, a group chat platform for teams and their AI agents **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Jack Dorsey has launched Buzz, an open source group chat platform built by Block that integrates AI agents natively alongside human team members. Positioned as a challenger to Slack and GitHub, Buzz merges chat, AI agent workflows, and GitHub project management into a single workspace. It is model-agnostic, decentralized, and self-sovereign, allowing teams to self-host and customize their own instances. A free desktop app is available for macOS, Windows, and Linux, though the platform is still in early stages. Buzz enters a growing space of AI-native Slack alternatives, alongside similar projects like Centaur from Paradigm. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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