# Imbue

> Imbue is a San Francisco AI research lab building agents that can reason and code. Founded in 2021 as Generally Intelligent and renamed in 2023, the company is led by CEO Kanjun Qiu and CTO Josh Albrecht. After a $200M Series B that valued it above $1B, Imbue is focused on practical agent tools - most visibly Sculptor, a UI for running parallel coding agents safely in containers - guided by a mission to keep humans in control of powerful AI.

- **Founded:** 2021
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Kanjun Qiu (CEO & Co-Founder), Josh Albrecht (CTO & Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** ~20-78 employees (reported ~20 at Series B; estimates up to ~78)
- **Products:** Sculptor, Reasoning models / research, Open-source tooling
- **Notable:** Reached a $1B+ valuation within roughly two years of founding with a small team., Raised a $200M Series B in September 2023 backed by Nvidia and Astera Institute., Built and trained 100B+ parameter reasoning models on a ~10,000 H100 GPU cluster.

## Products & services

- **Sculptor** — A UI for running parallel coding agents safely in isolated containers, instantly testing and merging changes, and getting in-line suggestions and fixes as code is written. Available on Mac (Apple Silicon) and Linux, with active beta.
- **Reasoning models / research** — Pretraining of very large (>100B parameter) models optimized on internal reasoning benchmarks, trained on a ~10,000 H100 cluster, aimed at robust, reliable general-purpose agents that can code.
- **Open-source tooling** — Code, datasets, and developer tools released via the imbue-ai GitHub org, supporting the broader research and developer community.

## Achievements

- Reached a $1B+ valuation within roughly two years of founding with a small team.
- Raised a $200M Series B in September 2023 backed by Nvidia and Astera Institute.
- Built and trained 100B+ parameter reasoning models on a ~10,000 H100 GPU cluster.
- Shipped Sculptor, rebuilt from the ground up in September 2025, as a UI for parallel coding agents.
- One of the few woman-led AI unicorns, led by CEO Kanjun Qiu.

## Latest updates

- **2025-09** — Sculptor rebuilt from the ground up and relaunched as a UI for running parallel coding agents in safe containers.
- **2025-04** — Sculptor released as a research preview for catching and fixing issues in agent-written code.
- **2023-09** — Raised $200M Series B, renamed from Generally Intelligent to Imbue, and crossed a $1B valuation.

## Links

- Website: https://imbue.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/imbue-ai
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/imbue_ai
- GitHub: https://github.com/imbue-ai
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO5WgWTfq1c

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Last updated: 2026-06-09