H, a Paris, France-based global foundation model and agentic AI company, raised $220M in Seed funding.
Backers included Accel, UiPath Inc., Bpifrance, through its Large Venture fund, Eric Schmidt, Xavier Niel, Amazon, FirstMark, Elaia Partners, Eurazeo, Yuri Milner, Bernard Arnault’s Aglaé Ventures, Creandum, Motier Ventures, Samsung, and Visionaries Club among others.
The company intends to use the funds to further develop its research talent, to acquire the vast amounts of compute and data power to achieve breakthroughs in the field of agentic models and support its vision of reaching full Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
H will build and commercially deploy foundational action models with capabilities across business and consumer verticals including agentic and vertical-based architectures as well as differentiated models capable of reasoning, planning, and collaboration.
The founding team unites scientists and entrepreneurs at the forefront of global AI innovation and usability:
- Charles Kantor (Chief Executive Officer)
- Karl Tuyls (Chief Research Operations)
- Laurent Sifre (Chief Technological Officer)
- Daan Wierstra (Joining soon as Chief Scientist)
- Julien Perolat (Chief Multi-Agent)
FinSMEs
21/05/2024