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Prime Intellect

Category: AI Infrastructure

The open superintelligence stack — a compute and infrastructure platform to train, evaluate, and deploy agentic AI models. Prime Intellect was founded in 2023. The company is led by Vincent Weisser. Based in San Francisco, CA (Headquarters) / Global / Remote. Team size: 11-50. Total funding raised: $70.4M. Latest round: Series A, $15.0M, 2025-03, led by Founders Fund. Key investors include ["Founders Fund","Menlo Ventures","Distributed Global","CoinFund","Andrej Karpathy","Clem Delangue","Juan Benet"].

Founded
2023
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA (Headquarters) / Global / Remote
Team size
11-50
Total funding
$70.4M

Value proposition

To provide a full-stack platform for open superintelligence — from GPU access and RL training to evaluations and deployment — making it possible for anyone to build frontier AI.

Products and solutions

["Prime Intellect Lab (Hosted RL training, evaluations, deployment)","Compute Exchange (GPU marketplace)","Environments Hub","Prime-RL Framework","INTELLECT-1 (10B model)","INTELLECT-2 (32B model)","INTELLECT-3 (100B+ MoE model)","Verifiers Library","Sandboxes"]

Unique value

Pioneering the training of large language models on a globally distributed, peer-to-peer network of heterogeneous hardware, rather than in a centralized data center.

Target customer

AI researchers, developers, enterprises, and organizations requiring scalable, resilient, and geographically distributed AI model training.

Industries served

["Artificial Intelligence","Scientific Research","Cloud Computing"]

Technology advantage

Decentralized architecture provides censorship resistance, lower costs, and increased resiliency. The protocol allows anyone to contribute compute, code, or capital.

How they differentiate

Unlike centralized competitors (OpenAI, Anthropic), Prime Intellect focuses on a decentralized, peer-to-peer architecture. It differs from other decentralized players by focusing on the entire training and inference pipeline as a cohesive protocol.

Main competitors

["OpenAI","Anthropic","Together AI","io.net","Bittensor"]

Key partnerships

["Browserbase","Zapier","Proximal (FrontierSWE)"]

Notable customers

["Zapier"]

Major milestones

["Raised $5.5M in a seed funding round in April 2024.","Raised $15M in Series A funding led by Founders Fund in February 2025.","Launched the Prime Intellect Protocol and Testnet.","Completed the first decentralized training of a 10B parameter model (INTELLECT-1).","Successfully trained a 32B parameter model (INTELLECT-2) via globally distributed reinforcement learning.","Raised $49.9M in Series B funding in December 2025.","Released INTELLECT-3, a 100B+ parameter MoE model, in November 2025.","Launched Environments Hub for open-source RL environments.","Partnered with Browserbase, Zapier, and Proximal in 2026."]

Growth metrics

Successfully trained INTELLECT-1 (10B), INTELLECT-2 (32B), and INTELLECT-3 (100B+ MoE) models. Grew team to 32 employees. Launched Environments Hub, Verifiers, and Sandboxes. Secured partnerships with Browserbase, Zapier, and Proximal.

Market positioning

The open superintelligence stack — a full-stack platform for training, evaluating, and deploying agentic AI models.

Geographic focus

Global

Patents and IP

N/A

About Vincent Weisser

Vincent Weisser is a product leader with a background in design and development, focused on advancing decentralized science. He is building Prime Intellect to commoditize compute and AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) to advance scientific progress and ensure broad distribution of AGI benefits. He is passionate about solving diseases and automating scientific discovery. Vincent has also worked on democratizing AI models and fair compute usage with a future-oriented vision towards humanity's interaction with AGI.

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