AI company Humans& is in talks to raise $1 billion at a $5 billion valuation

According to ChainCatcher, as reported by Forbes, former xAI researcher Eric Zelikman is establishing the AI startup Humans&, co-founding it with several researchers from Google, Meta, Anthropic, OpenAI, and DeepMind. The company aims to raise $1 billion, corresponding to a valuation of approximately $5 billion.

The company states that it will develop a new training paradigm that can remember and respond to individual preferences, emphasizing "human-machine collaboration," and expects the required computing power to exceed that of current mainstream methods. Co-founders include early Google employee Georges Harik, Stanford professor Noah Goodman, and Andi Peng, who previously worked on post-training and behavioral reinforcement at Anthropic. Humans& has not yet disclosed its product plans.