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.