Prime Intellect

Overview

Prime Intellect is an AI research and product startup building self-improving reinforcement-learning agents. Closed a $130M Series A in July 2026 at a $1B valuation led by Radical Ventures with NVIDIA Ventures and Intel Capital participating.

Timeline

• 2026-08-06-AI-Digest — Announces Prime Agent, an open-source self-improving RLM agent that scores 95.5% on ARC-AGI-3. HN traction (138 pts, 23 cmts). Reads as the productisation step following the July Series A rather than a research one-off.

Key Developments

1. Series A (July 2026): $130M at $1B valuation. Radical Ventures lead; NVIDIA Ventures and Intel Capital participate.
2. Prime Agent launch (Aug 5, 2026): Open-source self-improving RLM agent; 95.5% on ARC-AGI-3.