A "human-centric" AI business has raised $480 million

The Rundown: Researchers from Anthropic, xAI, and Google formed a new AI business that recently raised $480 million in seed funding at a $4.48 billion valuation. The company's goal is to develop AI that improves human collaboration rather than automation and complete replacement.

The specifics:

Humans& wants to create AI that can store memory, request context, coordinate teams, and act as an intelligent group chat.

Anthropic's emphasis on autonomy led co-founder Andi Peng to quit, stating that they "loved to highlight how its models churned for 8, 24, 50 hours by themselves."

The group consists of Stanford professor Noah Goodman, two former xAI researchers who worked on Grok, and Georges Harik, Google's seventh employee.

Along with Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, and Google Ventures, SV Angel and its co-founder Harik led the $480 million seed round.

A three-month-old startup's $4.48 billion valuation is outrageous, but it demonstrates the demand from investors for any team with a history in frontier labs. Although we've seen similar messaging from companies like Microsoft AI (and even Anthropic in its own commercials), the "human-centric" angle is a jab at the autonomy-driven improvements most laboratories are pursuing.

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