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Andreessen-backed AI OS Startup Special Launches Amid Founder Controversy

6/6/2026

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Nate Cavanaugh and Justin Fox launched Special, an AI operating system startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz.
Special will first deploy its AI OS at FigureHealth in senior care before expanding into construction and manufacturing.
Cavanaugh and Fox seized the U.S. Institute of Peace, acted as director, attempted to gift its building to the government (now under court review), and placed staff on leave at the Interagency Council on Homelessness.

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Nate Cavanaugh and Justin Fox launched Special, an AI operating system startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz.
Special will first deploy its AI OS at FigureHealth in senior care before expanding into construction and manufacturing.
Cavanaugh and Fox seized the U.S. Institute of Peace, acted as director, attempted to gift its building to the government (now under court review), and placed staff on leave at the Interagency Council on Homelessness.