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Imbue

Private

AI Agents

Founded 2021San Francisco, CA~40 employees
Website

Valuation

~$1B+ (2023)

Total Funding

$220M+

Profit Status

R&D stage

Employees

~40

About Imbue

Imbue is an AI research company building AI agents that can reason and code, with the long-term goal of enabling people to build their own software and tools. Formerly known as Generally Intelligent, Imbue trains its own large foundation models optimized for reasoning and develops agent systems and developer tooling aimed at robust, verifiable AI that non-experts can direct.

Company History

Founded in 2021 as Generally Intelligent by Kanjun Qiu and Josh Albrecht, the company rebranded to Imbue in 2023. It raised a $200M Series B (2023) at a reported $1B+ valuation from investors including NVIDIA and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Imbue trained a 70B-parameter reasoning model and open-sourced tooling from that effort, focusing on AI agents that can reliably reason, code, and act on a user's behalf.

Company Timeline

  • 2021

    Founded as Generally Intelligent

  • 2023

    Rebranded to Imbue; raised $200M Series B at ~$1B valuation

  • 2024

    Trained and detailed a 70B reasoning-optimized model

Products & Services

Imbue reasoning agentsCustom foundation modelsAgent-building tooling

Company Details

Focus Area

AI Agents

Stage

Private

Founded

2021

Headquarters

San Francisco, CA

Employees

~40

Financial Overview

Total Funding

$220M+

Valuation

~$1B+ (2023)

Profit Status

R&D stage

Funding Rounds

  • Series A$20M
    2022Y Combinator, Astera Institute
  • Series B$200M
    2023NVIDIA, Eric Schmidt

Key Investors

NVIDIAEric SchmidtAstera InstituteKleiner PerkinsNotion co-founders

Key People

  • Kanjun Qiu (CEO, co-founder)
  • Josh Albrecht (CTO, co-founder)

Competitive Landscape

Tags

AI Agents
Reasoning
Foundation Models
AI Research
Coding