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Humans& Lands $480 Million Seed at $4.48 Billion Valuation

Investors signal confidence in a small lab pursuing AI built to strengthen human teamwork.

Overview

  • The seed round was led by SV Angel and co‑founder Georges Harik, with Nvidia, Jeff Bezos and GV among the participants.
  • Founded in September 2025, the research‑driven team includes co‑founders Andi Peng, Eric Zelikman, Yuchen He, Georges Harik and Noah Goodman, with early hires from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, xAI and Meta.
  • Humans& says it is building systems that can plan over longer horizons, work alongside other AI, remember past interactions and closely link research to products.
  • Co‑founder Andi Peng told Crunchbase News the company expects to spend most of the capital on compute to train models, with roughly 20 employees currently at the lab.
  • Coverage describes the financing as among the largest seed rounds for an AI lab, reflecting investor competition for researcher‑led startups, and the company says a first product is planned early this year.