Imbue
Imbue (formerly Generally Intelligent), an AI foundation model company founded in 2022 in San Francisco, USA, builds AI agents capable of reasoning and coding to endow computers with intelligence and human values.
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Imbue (formerly Generally Intelligent), an AI foundation model company founded in 2022 in San Francisco, USA, builds AI agents capable of reasoning and coding to endow computers with intelligence and human values. The company has approximately 10,000 NVIDIA H100s and models with 100 billion+ parameters.
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Capital graph
Investor· 3
Founders / team· 1
Funding history
- 2023-10Series B$12M
Investors · Amazon Alexa FundSource · SVTR Weekly #024
- 2023-09Series B$40M
Investors · Astera Institute, NVIDIASource · SVTR Weekly #018
Comparable companies· by market
This company
BusinessLatest roundTotal raisedDate- Imbue
Builds models to power autonomous agents
Series B · $52M · 2023-10
$52M
United States
BusinessLatest roundTotal raisedDate- Scaled Cognition
High-reliability AI agent models (APT) for high-stakes enterprise scenarios.
Series A · $100M · 2026-06 · Valuation $750M
$100MValuation $750M - Deep Cogito
Superintelligence company developing hybrid reasoning large models
Series A · $56M · 2026-08
$56M - Inception
Diffusion large language models (DLMs) for text and code
Seed · $50M · 2025-11
$50M
China
BusinessLatest roundTotal raisedDate- 心识宇宙
Personal AI agent product Macaron and an agent model post-training platform
Series A · $70M · 2026-06
$70M - 01.AI
AIGC large-model services
Series A · $69M · 2024-08
$69M - Mindverse
Post-training and continual learning for agent models, using RL + LoRA to make models "get things done" with low-cost personalization; consumer product Macaron, a personal agent that instantly turns conversations into personalized mini-apps; open-sourced a 749B agent model
Series A · $50M · 2026-06
$50M
Europe
BusinessLatest roundTotal raisedDate- Mistral AI
Develops open-weight large language models and provides supporting compute infrastructure, as well as enterprise and sovereign AI products and API services
Series D+ · 2026-09 · Valuation $24B
—Valuation $24B - Ineffable Intelligence
Develops "superlearner" AI systems that learn autonomously through reinforcement learning without relying on human data
Seed · $1.1B · 2026-05 · Valuation $5.1B
$1.1BValuation $5.1B - Aleph Alpha
Develops AI large language models based on European data
Undisclosed · $500M · 2024-09
$500M
Other / unspecified
BusinessLatest roundTotal raisedDate- LawZero
Develops safe-by-design, non-agentic AI systems
Grant · $30M · 2025-06
$30M - Sarvam AI
Builds large language models that support Indian languages
Series B · $275M · 2026-06 · Valuation $1.5B
$275MValuation $1.5B - Sakana AI
Biologically inspired, efficient AI systems and models (including methods such as "model merging")
Series B · $265M · 2025-11
$265M
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