What it sells
Building intellectually curious AI
Business model breakdown
Buyer: who owns the budget?
Frontier AI labs (site: partnering with frontier labs to turn their models into researchers).
Workflow: what inputs become what output?
Builds training environments that make models curious, capable researchers; publishes research (video pretraining with imagination models, intrinsically curious agents).
Distribution: how it reaches customers
Research-lab partnerships with frontier labs; no self-serve.
Funding history and coverage
| Round date | Stage | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Y Combinator Summer 2026 | — | Y Combinator | ycombinator.com |
Profiles summarize public reporting and company websites. Business-model notes are MaxBC's reading of that material, not confirmed facts; unknowns are left blank rather than guessed. Updated 2026-10-12.