World models & simulation · Pittsburgh, US · founded 2025

Sooth Labs: who founded it, who funds it

Sooth Labs is a Pittsburgh world model lab founded in 2025 by Yaser Sheikh and Ruslan Salakhutdinov, who came from Meta and CMU. What it is building: probabilistic forecasting world models, from the Codec Avatars team. No funding round has been disclosed. It is still in stealth, with nothing outsiders can use.

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Founders: Yaser Sheikh (ex-Meta), Ruslan Salakhutdinov (ex-CMU)
Founders from: ex-Meta, ex-CMU
Location: Pittsburgh, US (North America)
Valuation: $335M estimate, per source
Raised: · disclosed
Investors: ·
What ships: Stealth

Sources

neolabs.fyi neolabs.fyi
spiderking spiderking.ai

News

Apr 22, 2026
AI Pioneers Back Startup Building Models to Predict Events

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