Overview

• Andreessen Horowitz led the seed round with participation from NVIDIA, Accel, ServiceNow, Cisco, AMD and Jane Street.
• Nearly two-thirds of the company’s founding team comprises former OpenAI researchers and engineers.
• The startup has struck a deal with Google Cloud to power its multimodal AI infrastructure.
• Murati says the first multimodal AI product will arrive in the next few months and include a significant open source component for researchers and startups.
• The funding comes as US startups raised a record $162.8 billion in the first half of 2025, with AI projects accounting for 64.1% of the total.