Imbue
AI Agents
- 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
3 milestones- 2021Founded as Generally Intelligent
- 2023Rebranded to Imbue; raised $200M Series B at ~$1B valuation
- 2024Trained and detailed a 70B reasoning-optimized model
Funding Rounds
2 rounds| Date | Round | Amount | Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Series A | $20M | Y Combinator, Astera Institute |
| 2023 | Series B | $200M | NVIDIA, Eric Schmidt, Kleiner Perkins |
Products & Services
3- Imbue reasoning agents
- Custom foundation models
- Agent-building tooling
People & ecosystem
Key People
- Kanjun Qiu (CEO, co-founder)
- Josh Albrecht (CTO, co-founder)
Key Investors
- NVIDIA
- Eric Schmidt
- Astera Institute
- Kleiner Perkins
- Notion co-founders