# Sam's team launches Steve, an AI CEO for autonomous companies

> Original title: Sam and his team are working on a super exciting idea: autonomous businesses.

- Source: François Chollet
- Published: 2026-11-09T17:23:10.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/gbbm4167fhxsmqrmdvrdhcjjt
- Original: https://x.com/fchollet/status/2119843249980662241

## Summary

Sam's team introduces Steve, which it describes as an AI CEO for fully autonomous companies built on world models, recursive self-learning, a policy engine, and specialist AI agents. The team says Steve already runs three acquired businesses and launches a $2M Steve Startups Program to acquire five more startups for it to automate. François Chollet calls acquiring distressed SaaS apps and handing them to an agent harness the ultimate real-world eval, with profit and loss as the objective function.

## Post

Sam and his team are working on a super exciting idea: autonomous businesses. 

Acquiring distressed or stagnant SaaS apps and handing the keys to an agent harness is the ultimate real-world eval. Just P&L as the objective function and the market as the feedback signal.

Congrats on the launch!

## Quoted post @spisallyouneed

> Introducing Steve: the World’s first AI CEO for fully Autonomous companies.
> 
> Powered by World Models, Recursive Self Learning, a Policy Engine and a team of specialist AI agents, it runs your business end-to-end 🔥.
> 
> Proof? Steve currently runs 3 businesses we acquired and they are all crushing it (numbers in thread 🧵)
> 
> We’re now launching the Steve Startups Program of $2M to acquire 5 additional startups for Steve to automate.
> 
> Join us in the Autonomous Enterprise revolution 🚀.

https://x.com/spisallyouneed/status/2119829366758604963