Self-improving AI & automated research · Mountain View, US · founded 2025
Poetiq: who founded it, who funds it
Poetiq is a Mountain View self-improving AI lab founded in 2025 by Shumeet Baluja and Ian Fischer, who came from DeepMind. What it is building: model-agnostic self-improving reasoning; 'the fastest path to superintelligence via practical recursive self-improvement'. No funding round has been disclosed. It has not released anything outsiders can use yet.
- Founders
- Shumeet Baluja (ex-Google DeepMind), Ian Fischer (ex-Google DeepMind)
- Founders from
- ex-Google DeepMind
- Location
- Mountain View, US (North America)
- Valuation
- ·
- Raised
- · disclosed
- Investors
- ·
- What ships
- Research only
Sources
- neolabs.fyi neolabs.fyi
- NEA nea.com
News
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May 14, 2026
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Jan 29, 2026
- Dec 25, 2025
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Dec 8, 2025
+2 more coverage
- Tom's Guide This tiny AI startup just crushed Google’s Gemini 3 on a key reasoning test — here's what…
- TechTalks Beyond raw intelligence: How Poetiq cracked the ARC-AGI-2 benchmark
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