PYMNTS.com January 26, 2026
The artificial intelligence (AI) funding boom shows no signs of slowing as deep tech startups capture massive capital even before major product launches.
Case in point: Humans&, a three-month-old San Francisco-based AI lab founded by researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI and Meta, closed a $480 million seed round, one of the largest seed financings ever, at an extraordinary $4.48 billion valuation.
According to Reuters, the round was led by SV Angel and co-founder Georges Harik, with participation from Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, Google Ventures, Emerson Collective, Forerunner and others. Humans& told Reuters that its mission is to build “human-centric AI tools” that enhance rather than replace human collaboration and communication.
Also in the AI infrastructure layer, Inferact, founded by the...
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