Standard Intelligence Raises $75M in Funding

Standard Intelligence Raises $75M in Funding

Standard Intelligence Raises $75M Funding at $500M Valuation

Standard Intelligence, a San Francisco-based AI research company focused on building aligned artificial general intelligence, has raised $75 million in new funding.

Investors

The funding round was backed by Sequoia and Spark Capital. Additional participants include prominent angels and advisors, such as Milan Kovac, Stanley Druckenmiller, and Andrej Karpathy.

The company plans to use the new capital to unlock significant compute scaling for its research efforts, particularly for its FDM-1 model. The funds will also support blue-sky research aimed at achieving the company's long-term mission of building aligned general learners and enable the company to hire additional world-class researchers and engineers.

Standard Intelligence is a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence research company focused on building aligned artificial general intelligence (AGI). The company develops foundation models and agentic AI systems designed to learn, reason, and operate across a wide range of real-world tasks. Its research emphasizes scaling AI capabilities through novel training approaches, including video pretraining, while advancing alignment techniques to ensure increasingly capable systems remain safe and controllable.

Funding Details

Company Website: https://si.inc

Company: Standard Intelligence

Raised: $75M

Funding Date: April 30, 2026

Lead Investor: Sequoia, Spark Capital

Additional Investors: Milan Kovac, Stanley Druckenmiller, Andrej Karpathy

Software Category: Artificial Intelligence