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Sep 8, 2023

AI Research Lab Imbue Nabs $200 Million For Speculative Bet To Build AI ‘Agents’

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The startup, one of very few woman-led AI unicorns, has a $1 billion valuation and access to 10,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs, but its founders say it could be years away from revealing a product.

It was at a San Francisco party hosted by Greg Brockman nearly a decade ago — around the time the Stripe CTO would leave to co-found an AI research lab called OpenAI — that entrepreneurs Kanjun Qiu and Josh Albrecht met a crypto mogul named Jed McCaleb.

As Qiu and Albrecht launched two now-defunct startups, and McCaleb became a regular at The Archive, their group house for founders and AI researchers near Dolores Park, they talked periodically about launching their own AI lab. Several of their housemates had… More.


Imbue has a $1 billion valuation and access to 10,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs, but its founders Kanjun Qiu and Josh Albrecht say it could be years away from revealing a product.

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