Artificial intelligence startup Humans& has raised $480M in seed funding that values the company at a $4.48B valuation, The New York Times reported.
The three-month company did not confirm the amount of money it raised on its sparsely populated website. However, it acknowledged that Nvidia (NVDA), Amazon (AMZN) co-founder Jeff Bezos, Google (GOOG) (GOOGL) Ventures and Laurene Powell Jobs’ Emerson Collective are among its investors.
Described as a “human-centric frontier AI lab,” Humans& said it believes AI “can be reimagined, centering around people and their relationships with each other.” The company hopes to do this with software.
“This requires rethinking everything about how we train models at scale and how people interact with AI,” the startup explained. “This needs innovations in long-horizon and multi-agent reinforcement learning, memory, and user understanding. At humans&, we will tightly integrate science and product development to drive this new paradigm.”
“At its best, AI should serve as a deeper connective tissue that strengthens organizations and communities,” the company added.
Some of its founders have formerly worked at xAI (X.AI), Anthropic (ANTHRO), Google DeepMind, OpenAI (OPENAI), Meta (META), Reflection, AI2, Stanford, and MIT.
Humans& did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Seeking Alpha.