Human-centric & personal AI · San Francisco, US · founded 2025
Humans&: who founded it, who funds it
Humans& is a San Francisco personal AI lab founded in 2025 by Eric Zelikman, Georges Harik, Noah Goodman, Andi Peng and 1 others, who came from xAI, DeepMind, Stanford and Anthropic. What it is building: a human-centric frontier lab: models that infer intent and long-term preferences and centre people and their relationships. It has raised $480M in disclosed rounds, most recently a Seed of $480M at a $4.48B valuation in January 2026. It has not released anything outsiders can use yet.
- Founders
- Eric Zelikman (ex-xAI), Georges Harik (ex-Google DeepMind), Noah Goodman (ex-Stanford), Andi Peng (ex-Anthropic), Yuchen He (ex-Meta)
- Founders from
- ex-xAI, ex-Google DeepMind, ex-Stanford, ex-Anthropic, ex-Meta
- Location
- San Francisco, US (North America)
- Valuation
- $4.48B set by the last priced round
- Raised
- $480M disclosed
- Investors
- Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, GV (Google Ventures), Ron Conway
- What ships
- Research only
Rounds
| Date | Round | Amount | Valuation | Lead | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 20, 2026 | Seed | $480M | $4.48B | · | reuters.com |
Sources
- TechCrunch techcrunch.com
- NYT nytimes.com
News
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Feb 16, 2026
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Jan 23, 2026
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Jan 20, 2026
+5 more coverage
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- Bloomberg.com Nvidia, SV Angel Set to Back Humans& at $4.48 Billion Valuation
- Crunchbase News Humans& Raises Huge $480M Seed Round At $4.48B Valuation For ‘Human-Centric AI Lab’
- Pulse 2.0 Humans& Raises $480 Million Seed Funding At $4.48 Billion Valuation For Building Human-Ce…
- TradeAlgo NVIDIA and SV Angel to Back Humans& in Deal Valuing Startup at $4.48 Billion
- Oct 31, 2025
Investors who back other labs here
- Nvidia also: Safe Superintelligence, Reflection AI, Skild AI, Poolside
- Jeff Bezos also: Skild AI, Physical Intelligence, Periodic Labs, Project Prometheus
- GV (Google Ventures) also: Recursive Superintelligence, Isomorphic Labs