Standard Intelligence Raises $75M in Funding
Standard Intelligence raises $75 million at a $500 million valuation to scale its research into aligned artificial general intelligence and AI agents.
Standard Intelligence Raises $75M Funding at $500M Valuation
Standard Intelligence, a San Francisco-based AI research company focused on building aligned artificial general intelligence, has raised $75 million in new funding.
Investors
The funding round was backed by Sequoia and Spark Capital. Additional participants include prominent angels and advisors, such as Milan Kovac, Stanley Druckenmiller, and Andrej Karpathy.
Standard Intelligence Use of Funds
The company plans to use the new capital to unlock significant compute scaling for its research efforts, particularly for its FDM-1 model. The funds will also support blue-sky research aimed at achieving the company's long-term mission of building aligned general learners and enable the company to hire additional world-class researchers and engineers.
About Standard Intelligence
Standard Intelligence is a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence research company focused on building aligned artificial general intelligence (AGI). The company develops foundation models and agentic AI systems designed to learn, reason, and operate across a wide range of real-world tasks. Its research emphasizes scaling AI capabilities through novel training approaches, including video pretraining, while advancing alignment techniques to ensure increasingly capable systems remain safe and controllable.
Funding Details
Company Website: https://si.inc
Company: Standard Intelligence
Raised: $75M
Funding Date: April 30, 2026
Lead Investor: Sequoia, Spark Capital
Additional Investors: Milan Kovac, Stanley Druckenmiller, Andrej Karpathy
Software Category: Artificial Intelligence
Source: https://startupfortune.com/standard-intelligence-raised-75-million-at-a-500-million-valuation-to-teach-ai-agents-how-to-see-and-use-software-the-way-humans-do/
