Organisation
Imbue
Reasoning-focused AI agents and developer tools, framed around amplifying rather than replacing the user.
Imbue is a US research lab, founded in 2021 as Generally Intelligent by Kanjun Qiu and Josh Albrecht and renamed in 2023, that builds AI systems aimed at reasoning — which it argues is the main obstacle to agents that reliably work. It raised a $200m Series B in September 2023 at a valuation above $1bn, backed by investors including Nvidia and the Astera Institute. It has since leaned toward tools that keep users in control — a coding workspace and agent managers among them — rather than competing directly with the largest general-purpose labs.
- Category
- Frontier & foundation-model labs
- Founded
- 2021
- HQ
- San Francisco, US
- Funding
- $200m+ Series B at ~$1bn valuation (2023), backed by Nvidia and Astera Institute
- Key people
- Kanjun Qiu, Josh Albrecht