Prime Intellect
Prime Intellect is an artificial intelligence company that trains open models on computing power spread across the world rather than in a single data center. It was launched in April 2024 by Vincent Weisser and Johannes Hagemann, with a $5.5 million seed round co-led by the crypto investors Distributed Global and CoinFund.[1] Its stated mission is "to build the open superintelligence stack".[2]
INTELLECT models
In November 2024, Prime Intellect released INTELLECT-1, a 10-billion-parameter model "collaboratively trained across the globe" on hardware in five countries, open-sourcing the model, its checkpoints and its training framework.[3] INTELLECT-2 (May 2025) was described as "the first 32B parameter model trained via globally distributed reinforcement learning", and INTELLECT-3 (November 2025) is a 106-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model built on the open GLM 4.5 Air base model.[4][5]
Funding
In February 2025, Prime Intellect raised $15 million in a round led by Founders Fund, with participation from the AI researchers Andrej Karpathy and Tri Dao, among others.[6] In July 2026, it raised a $130 million Series A led by Radical Ventures, with NVIDIA, Intel and Dell among the investors.[2]
See also
References
- ↑ Rowe, Niamh (April 23, 2024). "Prime Intellect raises seed funding". Fortune. Retrieved November 13, 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 July 8, 2026. "Series A". Prime Intellect. Retrieved November 13, 2026.
- ↑ November 29, 2024. "INTELLECT-1 Release". Prime Intellect. Retrieved November 13, 2026.
- ↑ May 11, 2025. "INTELLECT-2 Release". Prime Intellect. Retrieved November 13, 2026.
- ↑ November 26, 2025. "INTELLECT-3". Prime Intellect. Retrieved November 13, 2026.
- ↑ February 28, 2025. "Fundraise". Prime Intellect. Retrieved November 13, 2026.