# Vincent Weisser

> Vincent Weisser is the San Francisco-based co-founder and CEO of Prime Intellect. His work focuses on broadening access to AI development through computing infrastructure, open training frameworks, public models and tools that let teams train, evaluate and deploy their own agents.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at Prime Intellect
- **Organizations:** Prime Intellect, CODE University of Applied Sciences, Zuzalu
- **Education:** Software engineering studies; no completed degree verified, CODE University of Applied Sciences
- **Known for:** Co-founded Prime Intellect and serves as its CEO., Co-authored Prime Intellect’s April 2024 distributed-training technical overview., Led the company during releases of open model training tools and the INTELLECT model series.

## Career timeline

- **2017** — Joined the founding student cohort at CODE University in Berlin.
- **2018** — Applied machine learning to customer projects and worked on building a robot during his studies.
- **2023** — Helped organize the Zuzalu community experiment associated with Vitalik Buterin.
- **2024** — Publicly presented Prime Intellect with co-founder and CTO Johannes Hagemann; company released OpenDiLoCo and INTELLECT-1.
- **2025** — Prime Intellect released INTELLECT-2, the Environments Hub and INTELLECT-3.
- **2026** — Prime Intellect introduced Lab, announced a $130 million Series A and acquired Moondream.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Prime Intellect and serves as its CEO.
- Co-authored Prime Intellect’s April 2024 distributed-training technical overview.
- Led the company during releases of open model training tools and the INTELLECT model series.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — Prime Intellect announced its acquisition of Moondream on October 13, adding founders Vik Korrapati and Jay Allen to expand inference and multimodal work.
- **2026-07** — Prime Intellect announced a $130 million Series A led by Radical Ventures; announced total funding exceeded $150 million.
- **2026-02** — Prime Intellect introduced Lab for hosted training, evaluation and model optimization.

## Links

- Website: https://www.vincentweisser.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vincentweisser
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/vincentweisser
- GitHub: https://github.com/vincentweisser

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Last updated: 2026-10-24