humans&

humans& is a frontier AI lab built around a different bet than most: that the next real advance in AI is not just smarter reasoning, but AI designed to strengthen relationships between people rather than simply automate tasks. Its research focus centers on long-horizon and multi-agent reinforcement learning, memory, and user understanding, aiming to build what the company calls "a deeper connective tissue that strengthens organizations and communities." The founding team is unusually deep for a company this early — over 20 researchers and builders who have "led major efforts across frontier industry and academic labs including xAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Meta, AI2, Stanford, and MIT," including Eric Zelikman, Noah D. Goodman, Diyi Yang, and Georges Harik (also a co-lead investor). humans& raised a $480M Seed round in January 2026 led by SV Angel and Georges Harik, with NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos, Google Ventures, Emerson Collective, and Forerunner among its other backers.