Reka AI
Multimodal Foundation Models
Valuation
Undisclosed (prior ~$300M+)
Total Funding
$100M+
Profit Status
Early revenue
Employees
~80
About Reka AI
Reka AI is a research-driven AI company building efficient multimodal foundation models that understand and reason over text, images, audio, and video. Founded by researchers from DeepMind, Google Brain, and Meta, Reka delivers compact yet capable models (the Reka Core, Flash, and Edge family) designed for enterprise and on-device deployment, with a focus on strong performance at lower compute cost.
Company History
Founded 2022 by Dani Yogatama, Yi Tay, and Che Zheng — researchers from DeepMind, Google Brain, and Meta — Reka AI focuses on efficient multimodal models. It released the Reka Core, Flash, and Edge family in 2024, showing competitive benchmarks against much larger models. A reported ~$1B acquisition by Snowflake fell through in 2024, after which Reka continued independently, later open-sourcing models and shipping agentic research tools.
Company Timeline
2022
Founded by ex-DeepMind, Google Brain, and Meta researchers
2024
Released Reka Core, Flash, and Edge multimodal model family
2025
Shipped Reka Research and agentic tooling; open-sourced select models
Products & Services
Company Details
Focus Area
Multimodal Foundation Models
Stage
Founded
2022
Headquarters
Sunnyvale, CA
Employees
~80
Financial Overview
Total Funding
$100M+
Valuation
Undisclosed (prior ~$300M+)
Profit Status
Early revenue
Funding Rounds
- Seed/Series A$58M2023DST Global, Radical Ventures
- Series B$50M+2024Snowflake Ventures, NVIDIA
Key Investors
Key People
- Dani Yogatama (CEO, co-founder)
- Yi Tay (Chief Scientist, co-founder)