US EditionAI Startup Humans& Raises $480M at $4.48B Valuation
The $480 million seed round, among the largest ever, funds research on long-term reinforcement learning and AI tools for enhanced human collaboration, company says.
- On January 20, 2026, Humans& raised $480 million in seed funding at a $4.48 billion valuation, The New York Times reported for the three-month-old company.
- Humans& says it aims to create AI that functions as a deeper connective tissue that strengthens organizations and communities, prioritizing long-horizon and multi-agent reinforcement learning, memory and user understanding.
- Founders named on the team are Andi Peng, Georges Harik, Eric Zelikman, Yuchen He and Noah Goodman, and Humans& employs roughly 20 people from OpenAI, Meta, Reflection, Allen Institute for AI and MIT.
- Despite early excitement, roughly half of its founding team left in recent months, underscoring that large funding and pedigrees do not guarantee immediate success for Humans&.
- Humans&, a startup aiming to build an AI-powered instant messaging platform that retains user context, is part of the AI industry alongside companies like Thinking Machines Lab and Unconventional AI.
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