humans&
AI built around how people collaborate. Its models and software act as connective tissue for teams and use reinforcement learning, memory and user understanding. It does not aim to automate humans away.
- Founded
- September 2025
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, CA
- Founders
- Andi Peng, Georges Harik, Eric Zelikman, Yuchen He, Noah Goodman
- Pushes against
- Autonomous-agent and 'replace the worker' framings of AI.
- Now
- About 20 staff at the seed; no public product found as of 2026-10-04. One secondary report (single source) says co-founder Andi Peng left on 2026-07-29.
Key people
- Andi Peng (ex-Anthropic; reported to have left in 2026-07)
- Georges Harik (Google's seventh employee)
- Eric Zelikman (ex-xAI)
- Yuchen He (ex-xAI)
- Noah Goodman (Stanford)
Funding
- 20 January 2026
- Amount
- $480M seed
- Valuation
- $4.48B
- Lead
- SV Angel (Ron Conway) and Georges Harik; Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, GV, Emerson Collective
Every funding round in the atlas
Sources
- techcrunch.com/2026/01/20/humans-a-human-centric-ai-startup-founded-by-anthropic-xai-googl
- runtimewire.com/article/andi-peng-leaves-humans-and-after-480-million-seed
- cnbc.com/2026/04/28/meta-google-big-tech-staff-ai-labs-investors.html
- news.crunchbase.com/ai/humans-raises-huge-seed-round-unicorn-valuation/
- vccafe.com/ai-neo-labs-have-raised-11-6-billion-what-have-they-shipped/
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