"Humans&, a startup with a philosophy that AI should empower people rather than replace them, has raised $480 million in seed funding at a $4.48 billion valuation, reports The New York Times. Investors in the round include chipmaker Nvidia, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and VC firms SV Angel, Google Ventures and Laurene Powell Jobs's firm Emerson Collective. The megadeal for the three-month-old company follows a trend of investors throwing money at startups founded by breakaways of major AI labs."
"Humans&'s founders include Andi Peng, a former Anthropic researcher who worked on reinforcement learning and post-training of Claude 3.5 through 4.5; Georges Harik, Google's seventh employee who helped build its first advertising systems; Eric Zelikman and Yuchen He, two former xAI researchers who helped develop the Grok chatbot; and Noah Goodman, a Stanford professor of psychology and computer science. Humans&'s 20-odd employees also come from OpenAI, Meta, Reflection, AI2, and MIT, according to the company."
Humans& raised $480 million in seed funding at a $4.48 billion valuation from investors including Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, SV Angel, Google Ventures and Emerson Collective. Founders include former Anthropic researcher Andi Peng, early Google employee Georges Harik, former xAI researchers Eric Zelikman and Yuchen He, and Stanford professor Noah Goodman. The roughly 20-person team includes employees from OpenAI, Meta, Reflection, AI2 and MIT. The company aims to build software that helps people collaborate by acting like an AI instant-messaging platform that can request and store user information for later use. Technical priorities include long-horizon and multi-agent reinforcement learning, memory, user understanding, and tightly coupled science and product development.
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