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Prime Intellect

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www.primeintellect.ai ↗ · Status: active confirmed · Founded 2023

Prime Intellect sells an open-source-first stack for agentic RL: the Environments Hub (2,500+ community environments plus 365k+ unified SWE, terminal and search tasks), the verifiers, prime-rl and renderers libraries, Lab hosted RL post-training and evals (GA), Prime Sandboxes microVMs (GA), Prime Inference, and GPU compute. After a $130M Series A in July 2026 (TechCrunch reports a $1B valuation) it states $100M+ annualized revenue and 6,000+ customers. It also trains the open INTELLECT models and is the post-training partner in NVIDIA's Nemotron Coalition.

Key facts
Headquarters
San Francisco, USAconfirmed cite
Headcount band
11-50reported cite
Total raised
$150Mconfirmed cite
Last round
Series A, $130M, announced 2026-07-08, led by Radical Ventures with NVIDIA Ventures, Intel Capital and Dell Technologies Capital (Iconiq per TechCrunch); $1B valuation reported by TechCrunchconfirmed cite
SOC 2
claimedconfirmed cite
What they sell
mixedconfirmed cite
Open source
yesconfirmed cite
Deployment
managed-hosted + API (hosted training/inference, on-demand GPU); open-source frameworks self-hostableconfirmed cite

What's new

14 sourced updates · last 6 months

Founding team

Vincent Weisser
Vincent Weisser
Co-founder & CEO
German entrepreneur from the decentralized-science (DeSci) community before co-founding Prime Intellect (per Wikipedia). The VitaDAO link in the baseline could not be re-verified from a primary source in this run.
Johannes Hagemann
Johannes Hagemann
Co-founder & CTO
Joined Aleph Alpha in early 2022, where he helped build a distributed training framework from scratch. Co-founded Prime Intellect with Weisser at the end of 2023 (per hagemann.ai).

What practitioners should know

For researchers

  • Fully open RL stack: verifiers (MIT, about 4.7k GitHub stars), prime-rl (async RL with a per-environment algorithms layer covering GRPO, MaxRL, on-policy and self-distillation and ECHO; multi-agent support since 0.8.0; v0.6.0 deep dive at 1T scale with 131k context), renderers for token-level templating, and the Prime Agent harness.
  • Open research in 2026: the NanoGPT-speedrun autonomous-research benchmark (Aug), the General Agent synthetic environment (May), the reward-hacking dynamics study (May), ECHO world-modeling (Jun), and the universal offline sandbox escape disclosure (Aug).
  • Prime Sprints awards $5K+ in monthly compute credits for community environment research (first track: reward hacking).
  • 365k+ agentic tasks (SWE, terminal, search) unified from 23 public tasksets, with about 135k prebuilt images and verified Hugging Face re-uploads.

For program managers

  • Scale signals, company-stated (Jul 2026): over $100M annualized revenue reached in under a year, over 6,000 customers and over $150M raised. The $130M Series A was led by Radical Ventures with NVIDIA Ventures, Intel Capital and Dell Technologies Capital. TechCrunch reports a $1B valuation and Iconiq's participation.
  • Self-serve plus forward-deployed: Lab and Sandboxes are GA and self-serve, and the careers page lists Applied Research (Forward-Deployed), Solutions Architect, Technical Account Manager and Forward Deployed AI Strategy Lead roles.
  • Ecosystem ties: NVIDIA Nemotron Coalition member (Jun 2026) with day-zero Nemotron 3 Ultra post-training; NVIDIA technical collaboration (Mar 2026); John Schulman (Thinking Machines) is an angel investor.
  • Named case studies are all on the vendor's own site, so treat them as self-claimed: Ramp, Zapier, Goodfire, Mixedbread, Extropic. TechCrunch independently names Ramp, Zapier and Flapping Airplanes as customers. Homepage logos also include Character AI, Inception, Arcee, Browserbase and Standard Intelligence.
  • The product now spans compute, sandboxes, environments, evals, training and inference, so expect a single-vendor pitch.

For data ops

  • Integration formats: verifiers v1 supports Harbor tasksets (e.g. Terminal-Bench 2); subprocess, Docker, Prime Sandboxes and Modal runtimes; OpenAI Chat/Responses and Anthropic Messages dialects; and alpha NeMo Gym and OpenEnv support.
  • Prime Sandboxes: hardware-isolated microVMs with a guest kernel each, Docker Compose support, a default limit of 1,024 concurrent sandboxes, and CLI/SDK access.
  • Prime Inference exposes an OpenAI-compatible API at api.pinference.ai/api/v1.
  • Security: the public /security page is a vulnerability disclosure policy with a bug bounty, 2-business-day acknowledgment and an email channel. No SOC 2 or other certification is stated publicly. Pipelines that run 'offline' evals should move to the patched framework versions listed in the 2026-08-25 sandbox-escape post (e.g. verifiers v0.3.1, Inspect v0.3.255).

Benchmarks & research

10 published
Shows that 'offline' eval sandboxes can leak web access through URL fetching in inference stacks (OpenAI Responses API, vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM, Dynamo, Inspect).
Coordinated fixes and allowlists across frameworks; METR and UK AISI were informed before publication.
Frontier models autonomously optimize the 124M-parameter nanoGPT speedrun (fewest steps to val loss 3.28) on 8xH200 for up to 8 days. Traces and code: github.com/PrimeIntellect-ai/frontier-automated-speedrun. A precursor post, 'Autonomous AI research for nanogpt speedrun', ran 2026-05-14.
153 runs, 18 models. Per the post, the best run (Claude Fable 5) reached 2,726 steps against a 3,290-step baseline and the 2,600-step human record, closing 81.7% of the gap.
23 public agentic tasksets (SWE-smith, SWE-rebench V2, Scale-SWE, R2E-Gym, SWE-bench Pro, Terminal-Bench 2, BrowseComp, BrowseComp-Plus and more) in one API and sandbox stack, with about 135k prebuilt images and verified Hugging Face re-uploads (research-environments repo).
Vendor-reported training example: GLM-4.5-Air on Scale-SWE reached 0.554 pass@10.
Combines RL with supervised prediction of tool outputs to teach agents a world model, tested on Forth programming and web-search QA.
Per the post, learning is faster with little overhead, and the benefit is clearer at 110B than at 4B.
Hosted evals of Hub environments with per-environment public leaderboards. The homepage cites 100+ open-source models available for benchmarking.
Controlled planted-hack experiments on when and how fast reward hacking emerges during RL.
Hacks with a 0.16% baseline frequency still get exploited ('no rarity floor'); moderate task difficulty slows hacking.
Open-source synthesizer/solver environment that generates stateful tool-use tasks: 4,504 tasks across 1,040 domains.
SFT on 4,417 traces: BFCL-v3 from 18.9% to 52.3%; MCP-Atlas from 0.6% to 12.1%.
106B MoE (12B active) open model trained with large-scale RL on the prime-rl stack.
INTELLECT-2paper · 2025
First globally distributed RL training of a 32B model.
Open dataset of about four million collaboratively generated reasoning traces, listed under Research on the homepage.

Products

Lab (hosted RL post-training platform) ↗
End-to-end platform to configure environments, evaluate, train (hosted RL with LoRA) and deploy agentic models. Per-token training pricing. 14 models from 1B to 70B at GA, plus day-zero Nemotron 3 Ultra post-training.launched 10 Feb 2026
Environments Hub ↗
Community registry of RL environments (2,500+ per the homepage), plus 365k+ unified agentic tasks and third-party benchmarks such as FrontierSWE.launched 27 Aug 2025
Hosted Evaluations ↗
Run Hub benchmarks as hosted evals, with leaderboards and an eval viewer.launched 30 May 2026
Prime Sandboxes ↗
MicroVM sandboxes (a guest kernel per sandbox) for agentic RL and evals. CLI and SDK access, tier-free usage-based pricing.launched GA 2026-09-23
Prime Inference ↗
OpenAI-compatible serving for open frontier models (GLM-5.3 on GB200 NVL72) with failover and SLAs. Batch and dedicated deployments are on the roadmap.launched 2 Oct 2026
Compute (on-demand GPUs and reserved clusters) ↗
On-demand and spot GPUs (H100, H200, GH200, B200, B300, A100 and others) and multi-node clusters of up to 512 GPUs with SLURM/K8s and InfiniBand. Reserved-cluster quotes are sourced across 50+ providers.
verifiers (open source, MIT) ↗
Library for RL environments and evals. v1 adds tasksets, harnesses and runtimes, Harbor support and alpha NeMo Gym/OpenEnv support; 0.3.0 adds multi-agent support; 0.3.1 adds sandbox egress allow and deny lists.launched v1 2026-07-12
prime-rl (open source) ↗
Async RL training framework: v0.6.0 runs at 1T-parameter scale, an algorithms layer was added 2026-07-06, and 0.8.0 adds multi-agent RL.
renderers (open source) ↗
Token-level chat templating library for multi-turn RL.launched 12 May 2026
Prime Agent (open source) ↗
Self-improving RLM agent harness with a Continual Harness.launched 5 Aug 2026
Prime CLI / SDK ↗
CLI and Python SDK for compute, sandboxes, environments, evals and training.

Scale & velocity

Current headcount
11-50 (LinkedIn public snippet, as of 2026-06-07); Sacra reported 23 FTE (date unclear, likely 2025)reported cite
Headcount growth
229% YoY (per Sacra; period unspecified, likely 2024-2025, stale)reported cite
Open roles
30 open roles (careers page, 2026-10-05)confirmed cite
Other locations
New York City, USA (roles listed; office not separately confirmed)reported cite
Distributed / remote
yesreported cite

Research depth

Has researchers
yesconfirmed cite
Researcher count
unknown
Backgrounds
Johannes Hagemann (co-founder/CTO) - ex-Aleph Alpha (distributed training), Will Brown - created Verifiers RL environments library; research lead (not a founder), Vincent Weisser (co-founder/CEO) - background in DeSci/Web3 (e.g. VitaDAO)reported cite

Capital

Total raised
Over $150M (company-stated in the Series A announcement, Jul 2026): $5.5M seed (2024) + $15M (2025) + $130M Series A (2026)confirmed cite
Last round
Series A, $130M, announced 2026-07-08, led by Radical Ventures with NVIDIA Ventures, Intel Capital and Dell Technologies Capital (Iconiq per TechCrunch); $1B valuation reported by TechCrunchconfirmed cite
Investors
Radical Ventures (led $130M Series A, 2026), NVIDIA Ventures, Intel Capital, Dell Technologies Capital, Iconiq (reported by TechCrunch), Founders Fund (led $15M round, 2025), Menlo Ventures, Distributed Global (co-led seed), CoinFund (co-led seed), John Schulman (angel), Aaron Levie (angel), Dwarkesh Patel (angel), Matthew Prince (angel), Harrison Chase (angel), Brendan Foody (angel), Aravind Srinivas (angel, reported by TechCrunch), Andrej Karpathy (angel), Clem Delangue (angel), Tri Dao (angel), Emad Mostaque (angel), Dylan Patel (angel)confirmed cite
Valuation
$1B (Series A, Jul 2026; reported by TechCrunch, not disclosed by the company)reported cite
Revenue signals
Company-stated (Jul 2026): over $100M annualized revenue reached in under a year, and over 6,000 customers (self-reported, not audited; TechCrunch repeats the $100M run rate)confirmed cite
DateRoundAmountLed by
8 Jul 2026Series A$130M
valuation $1B
Radical Venturessource ↗

Security & compliance

SOC 2
not stated (no SOC 2 claim on the homepage or security page as of 2026-10-05)confirmed cite
Other certifications
unknown
Security page
https://www.primeintellect.ai/security (vulnerability disclosure and bug bounty policy only; no certifications listed)confirmed cite

Product

What they sell
mixedconfirmed cite
Open source
yesconfirmed cite
License
MIT (Verifiers library); other repos varyconfirmed cite
Deployment model
managed-hosted + API (hosted training/inference, on-demand GPU); open-source frameworks self-hostableconfirmed cite
Maturity
GA: Lab GA 2026-05-07 (opened to all 2026-02-10), Prime Sandboxes GA 2026-09-23, Prime Inference launched 2026-10-02; company reports $100M+ annualized revenue and 6,000+ customersconfirmed cite
Notable customers
⚑NVIDIA (integration/collaboration and Nemotron Coalition member; not strictly a buyer) verified Ramp (case study; also named by TechCrunch) verified Zapier (case study; also named by TechCrunch) verified Flapping Airplanes (named as a customer by TechCrunch) verified Goodfire (case study) self-claimed Mixedbread (case study) self-claimed Extropic (case study) self-claimed Character AI (logo) self-claimed Arcee AI (logo) self-claimed Browserbase (logo; partnership announced 2026-03-30) self-claimed Inception (logo) self-claimed Standard Intelligence (logo) self-claimed cite

Buyer analysis

Best fit: Teams wanting open, community-shared RL environments plus managed RL post-training/compute to build or fine-tune agentic models without locked-down proprietary tooling.

How we verified this

2026-10-05 refresh: I opened every draft source URL. Dates for all 2026 items were checked against the official blog index; every news item falls between 2026-04-16 and 2026-10-02. The core facts hold up: the $130M Series A, its investors and the company-stated metrics; the GA dates; the case-study claims; and the research numbers. The main correction is valuation. The draft said there was none and called the baseline's ~$1B unsupported, but TechCrunch's 2026-07-08 article states the round was 'at a $1 billion valuation' and also names Iconiq. Both are now added as reported. Several smaller items were made more precise: - the prime-rl scale claim (Nemotron-3 Ultra is 550B, not 1T+); - the compute specs (up to 512 GPUs, 50+ providers); - the sandbox-escape affected list and patched versions; - a Lab headline that tied in a Ramp case study its source does not mention. I added three in-window posts the draft missed: renderers, ECHO world-modeling, and day-zero Nemotron 3 Ultra post-training. Ramp, Zapier and Flapping Airplanes are upgraded to third-party verified because TechCrunch names them as customers. Both founder headshots were downloaded and visually checked; each is a single-person photo on a stable source. Weisser's VitaDAO background could not be re-verified and is softened to 'DeSci entrepreneur' per Wikipedia. One limit: the web-search budget for this session was exhausted, so the search for missed events relied on the company blog index, the TechCrunch article and Wikipedia rather than a broad press sweep. No acquisition, shutdown or new round was found in these sources.

Related vendors

Sources

  1. www.primeintellect.ai/blog/series-a · 2026-10-05, $130M Series A, 2026-07-08, Radical lead, strategic investors and angels, over $150M total, over $100M annualized revenue, over 6k customers; no valuation stated
  2. techcrunch.com/2026/07/08/prime-intellect-raises-130m-series-a-to-help-e · 2026-10-05, TechCrunch (Marina Temkin): 'raised a $130 million Series A at a $1 billion valuation'; Iconiq and Aravind Srinivas among participants; names Ramp, Zapier and Flapping Airplanes as customers
  3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Intellect · 2026-10-05, Founders (Weisser described as a German DeSci entrepreneur; Hagemann ex-Aleph Alpha); funding timeline; pointer to the TechCrunch valuation
  4. primeintellect.ai/blog · 2026-10-05, Blog index with dates for all 2026 posts and case studies
  5. primeintellect.ai/blog/prime-inference · 2026-10-05, Prime Inference launch, 2026-10-02
  6. primeintellect.ai/blog/sandboxes · 2026-10-05, Prime Sandboxes GA, 2026-09-23
  7. primeintellect.ai/case-study/extropic · 2026-10-05, Extropic case study; date from blog index (2026-10-01)
  8. primeintellect.ai/case-study/goodfire · 2026-10-05, Goodfire case study; date from blog index (2026-09-17)
  9. primeintellect.ai/case-study/mixedbread · 2026-10-05, Mixedbread Toast 1 case study; date from blog index (2026-08-13)
  10. primeintellect.ai/case-study/ramp · 2026-10-05, Ramp FastAsk case study; date from blog index (2026-05-07)
  11. primeintellect.ai/case-study/zapier · 2026-10-05, Zapier AutomationBench case study; date from blog index (2026-04-20)
  12. primeintellect.ai/blog/nixl-modelexpress-weight-transfer · 2026-10-05, Weight transfer cut from 86.1s to 3.9s, 2026-09-03
  13. primeintellect.ai/blog/universal-offline-sandbox-escape · 2026-10-05, Sandbox escape disclosure, affected stacks and patched versions, 2026-08-25
  14. primeintellect.ai/blog/measuring-autonomous-research · 2026-10-05, NanoGPT speedrun autonomous-research benchmark, 2026-08-15
  15. primeintellect.ai/blog/prime-flash-moe · 2026-10-05, MoE kernels on B200; no open-source link
  16. primeintellect.ai/blog/multi-agent-systems · 2026-10-05, Multi-agent RL; verifiers 0.3.0 and prime-rl 0.8.0
  17. primeintellect.ai/blog/prime-agent · 2026-10-05, Prime Agent open source; self-reported ARC-AGI-3 95.5% RHAE
  18. primeintellect.ai/blog/scaling-agentic-rl · 2026-10-05, 365k+ tasks, 23 tasksets, about 135k prebuilt images
  19. primeintellect.ai/blog/verifiers-v1 · 2026-10-05, verifiers v1: runtimes, dialects, Harbor/NeMo Gym/OpenEnv
  20. primeintellect.ai/blog/algorithms-layer · 2026-10-05, prime-rl algorithms layer with six built-ins, 2026-07-06
  21. primeintellect.ai/blog/rl-at-1t-scale · 2026-10-05, prime-rl v0.6.0: GLM-5.1 case study, 131k context, 28 H200 nodes
  22. primeintellect.ai/blog/true-agents-model-the-world · 2026-10-05, ECHO world-modeling research, 2026-06-10
  23. primeintellect.ai/blog/nemotron-coalition · 2026-10-05, NVIDIA Nemotron Coalition membership and named members, 2026-06-04
  24. primeintellect.ai/blog/nemotron-3 · 2026-10-05, Day-zero Nemotron 3 Ultra post-training on Lab, 2026-06-04
  25. primeintellect.ai/blog/hosted-evaluations · 2026-10-05, Hosted Evaluations launch, 2026-05-30
  26. primeintellect.ai/blog/reward-hacking · 2026-10-05, Reward hacking study and Prime Sprints, 2026-05-20
  27. primeintellect.ai/blog/general-agent · 2026-10-05, General Agent environment, 2026-05-18
  28. primeintellect.ai/blog/renderers · 2026-10-05, renderers open-source library, 2026-05-12
  29. primeintellect.ai/blog/lab-is-open · 2026-10-05, Lab GA 2026-05-07; 14 models; 10,000+ beta training jobs
  30. primeintellect.ai/blog/lab · 2026-10-05, Lab opened to everyone 2026-02-10
  31. primeintellect.ai/blog/frontier-swe · 2026-10-05, FrontierSWE by Proximal on the Hub, 2026-04-16
  32. www.primeintellect.ai/ · 2026-10-05, Homepage: products, compute specs (up to 512 GPUs, 50+ providers), 2,500+ environments, customer logos (no Groq), no SOC 2 claim
  33. www.primeintellect.ai/security · 2026-10-05, Vulnerability disclosure and bug bounty policy; no certifications
  34. www.primeintellect.ai/careers · 2026-10-05, 30 open roles; SF, NYC and remote; forward-deployed and solutions roles
  35. www.vincentweisser.com/ · 2026-10-05, Weisser personal site; headshot at /uploads/vincentweisser.jpg (downloaded and checked: single-person headshot, image/jpeg)
  36. github.com/vincentweisser · 2026-10-05, Weisser GitHub: 'prime intellect', member of the PrimeIntellect-ai org, X @vincentweisser
  37. github.com/JohannesHa · 2026-10-05, Hagemann GitHub: 'co-founder/cto @PrimeIntellect-ai'; avatar downloaded and checked as a single-person photo
  38. hagemann.ai · 2026-10-05, Hagemann bio: Aleph Alpha from early 2022; co-founded Prime Intellect end of 2023
  39. github.com/PrimeIntellect-ai/verifiers · 2026-10-05, MIT license, about 4.7k stars
  40. www.primeintellect.ai/blog/environments · 2026-06-07, Environments Hub launch, beta contributors, dated Aug 27 2025
  41. www.primeintellect.ai/blog/fundraise · 2026-06-07, $15M round Feb 28 2025, Founders Fund lead, angel list, total >$20M at that time
  42. www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/prime-intellect-secures-5-5m-in-seed-fu · 2026-06-07, $5.5M seed Apr 2024, Distributed Global + CoinFund
  43. tracxn.com/d/companies/prime-intellect/__c00KIKAVH9b1POsp5fnIynw_8joG2ie · 2026-06-07, Total $70.4M, Series B $49.9M Dec 1 2025
  44. sacra.com/c/prime-intellect/ · 2026-06-07, 23 FTE, 229% YoY growth, founders; funding figures STALE (says $20M total)
  45. www.linkedin.com/company/primeintellect-ai · 2026-06-07, 11-50 employees, San Francisco HQ (public snippet)
  46. github.com/PrimeIntellect-ai/prime-rl · 2026-06-07, prime-rl agentic RL training framework
  47. www.primeintellect.ai/case-study/zapier · 2026-06-07, Zapier AutomationBench case study using Verifiers + Lab
  48. www.primeintellect.ai/case-study/ramp · 2026-06-07, Ramp FastAsk subagent trained via Lab, beat Opus 4.6 on spreadsheet search (vendor claim)
  49. www.primeintellect.ai/blog/intellect-3 · 2026-06-07, INTELLECT-3 100B+ MoE open model
  50. arxiv.org/pdf/2512.16144 · 2026-06-07, INTELLECT-3 technical report
  51. arxiv.org/pdf/2601.16443 · 2026-06-07, Endless Terminals: Scaling RL Environments for Terminal Agents
  52. nextomoro.com/johannes-hagemann/ · 2026-06-07, Hagemann background - ex-Aleph Alpha, CTO
  53. www.fastaijobs.com/companies/prime-intellect · 2026-06-07, ~29 open roles
  54. wellfound.com/company/prime-intellect/jobs · 2026-06-07, Open roles, remote flexibility
  55. www.sequoiacap.com/podcast/building-the-github-for-rl-environments-prime · 2026-06-07, Founder interview - 'GitHub for RL environments' positioning
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