According to reports, former xAI researcher Eric Zelikman is planning to raise $1 billion at a $5 billion valuation for Human&, a new firm that employs staff from other cutting-edge AI laboratories to develop human-centered AI utilizing novel training techniques. The specifics: Georges Harik, Google's seventh employee, and seasoned workers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and DeepMind make up the founding team. Humans& seeks to develop "human-centered" AI using a novel training approach that enhances rather than replaces users' abilities. Zelikman was a pioneer in the field of teaching language models to reason sequentially before reacting; this work eventually influenced OpenAI's o1 series. Zelikman believes that rather than relying solely on superintelligence, advances in AI will come from technologies that help human teams work more efficiently together. AI is speeding toward models that outthink humans on every task. The high value also keeps with the pattern of pre-product, pre-revenue AI businesses raising enormous sums of money.