AI startup Humans& raised $480 million in seed funding at a $4.48 billion valuation, the company announced Tuesday.
The three-month-old company was founded by former researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Alphabet, and xAI. The round was led by Ron Conway's SV Angel and co-founder Georges Harik.
Investors include Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, Alphabet's venture capital arm GV, and Laurene Powell Jobs's Emerson Collective.
Key founders include Andi Peng, a former Anthropic research scientist who worked on Claude models; Georges Harik, Google's seventh employee who helped build Gmail and Google Docs; Eric Zelikman and Yuchen He, former xAI researchers who contributed to the Grok chatbot; and Noah Goodman, a Stanford professor of psychology and computer science.
Humans& is developing human-centric AI tools for communication and collaboration. The company plans to launch its first product early this year.
The company is based in San Francisco and will work closely with Nvidia on hardware and software.
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