AI startup Humans& raises $480 million at $4.5 billion valuation in seed round

AI startup Humans&, founded by former OpenAI, Alphabet ‍and xAI researchers, has raised $480 million in a seed financing ⁠round, which values the company at $4.48 billion, it said on Tuesday.

The outsized seed round highlights intense investor interest in next-generation AI ‌labs founded ‌by veteran researchers as companies race to build systems that go beyond ‌chatbots and agentic tools.

The round was led by Ron Conway’s SV Angel and co-founder Georges Harik, while Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, Alphabet’s VC arm, GV, among other venture capital investors, also participated.