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Total raised
$262.4M
3 rounds on record
Latest round
$130M
Series A · Jul 2026 · 3 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Backers
4
Radical Ventures, Collab+Currency
The money's age
Fresh money
3 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
50/100
in the news, fresh money, rising traction
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this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Aug 22
On the Hacker News front page NanoGPT Speedrun Frontier · 140 points
Jul 8
Raised a round Series A $130M · TechCrunch
Dec 1, 2025
Raised a round Venture round $49.9M · SEC Form D
May 12, 2025
On the Hacker News front page Intellect-2 Release: The First 32B Model Trained Through Globally Distributed RL · 201 points
Oct 11, 2024
On the Hacker News front page INTELLECT–1: Launching the First Decentralized Training of a 10B Parameter Model · 111 points
Jul 1, 2024
Launched on Hacker News Show HN: Prime Intellect GPU Cloud. H100s starting at $1.65/HR on demand
2024
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Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series A | Jul 2026 | $130M | — | TechCrunch |
| Venture round | Jun 2026 | $82.5M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Dec 2025 | $49.9M | — | SEC Form D |
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| Legal entity | Prime Intellect, Inc. | SEC Form D |
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Vincent WeisserExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
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News
GLM-5.2 RL weight transfer in 4 seconds using NIXL and ModelExpress
How prime-rl transfers a 1.6 TB GLM-5.2 policy into DPEP=32 vLLM inference, overlaps online quantization, and reduces end-to-end synchronization from 86.1 seconds to 3.9 seconds.
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Uncovering a universal offline sandbox escape
We found models circumventing offline evaluation restrictions through inference API remote-fetch capabilities and coordinated fixes across affected frameworks.
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NanoGPT Speedrun Frontier
Compare 153 autonomous runs from 18 frontier models on the nanoGPT optimizer speedrun.
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Measuring Autonomous AI Research
We ran 153 autonomous runs across 18 frontier models on the nanoGPT optimizer speedrun.
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Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent
Prime Agent is our open-source, self-improving coding harness built around two abstractions: the Recursive Language Model (RLM) and the Continual Harness. With Opus 5, it achieves 95.5% on ARC-AGI-3, surpassing the reported human expert baseline.
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Prime Intellect (@PrimeIntellect) on X
Introducing Prime Agent:A self-improving RLM harness for coding and long-running autonomous tasks.Designed to be both token-efficient and expressive through programmatic tool calling, context as a variable, multi-agent messaging, and a self-modifiable har
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Scaling Agentic RL: 365,000+ Environments for SWE, Terminal, and Search
We ship first-party integrations for 23 agentic tasksets behind one taskset API - 365,000 software engineering, terminal, and search tasks, validated and ready for evals and RL training on Prime Intellect infrastructure.
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$130M Series A to Build the Open Superintelligence Stack
We've raised $130M led by Radical Ventures, with participation from NVIDIA Ventures, Intel Capital, Dell Technologies Capital, and our existing investors - bringing our total funding to over $150M to build the open superintelligence stack.
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People

Vincent Weisser
Executive Officer, Director

Johannes Hagemann
Director

David Katz
Director
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0
Countries
1
Dover
United States
HQ
50-200 est. staff

Radical Ventures
Collab+Currency
Compound
Menlo Ventures 




