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Departed xAI and is raising $1 billion at a $4 billion valuation for his new startup Humans&, which will build models that learn from and empathize with users.
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Eric Zelikman, a top AI researcher who departed xAI in September, is raising $1 billion at a $4 billion valuation for his new startup
Business InsidernewspositiveNov 7, 2025
Eric Zelikman, former xAI researcher, is raising $1 billion at a $4 billion valuation for Humans&, a startup building empathetic AI models that learn from and understand users better than current language models.
“Departed xAI and is raising $1 billion at a $4 billion valuation for his new startup Humans&, which will build models that learn from and empathize with users.”
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