Pokee AI

Pokee AI is a Bellevue-based startup building foundation AI agents that plan, reason, and act across thousands of internet tools. Founded in 2024 by former Meta applied-reinforcement-learning lead Zheqing (Bill) Zhu, the company uses reinforcement learning rather than pure LLM function-calling to sequence tool use reliably, claiming its foundation model outperforms GPT-4o, Claude 3.7, and Gemini 2.5 Pro on tool selection. Pokee raised a $12M seed round in 2025 led by Point72 Ventures, ships an enterprise platform with private/on-prem deployment, and open-sourced PokeeResearch-7B, a state-of-the-art small deep-research agent.