Company Growth (employees)
Vicarious was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, US
Key People at Vicarious
Dileep George
Co-Founder
Scott Phoenix
Cofounder
Wolfgang Lehrach
Researcher
Ken Kansky
Researcher
Charlotte Bowell
Director of Operations
Bhaskara Marthi
Researcher
Vicarious Office Locations
Vicarious has an office in San Francisco
Vicarious Data and Metrics
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Founding Date | 2010 |
Total Funding | $177 m |
Latest funding size | $50 m |
Time since last funding | about 2 months |
Investors | Sam Altman, Joe Lonsdale, AME Cloud Ventures, Marc Benioff, Steve Brown, Peter Thiel, Formation 8, Aaron Levie, Initialized Capital, Vinod Khosla, Bryan Johnson, Felicis Ventures, Founders Fund, Jeff Bezos, A-Grade Investments, Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Metaplanet Holdings, Felicis Venture, OS Fund, Ashton Kutcher, ABB Technology Ventures, Good Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Data Collective, Open Field Capital, Zarco Investment Group, Elon Musk |
Vicarious's latest funding round in July 2017 was reported to be $50 m. In total, Vicarious has raised $177 m
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Vicarious News and Updates
July 26, 2017
Vicarious gets another $50 million to expand its research team and build smarter robots
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg might not be able to agree about much when it comes to AI these days, but the pair do seem to see the same potential in Vicarious, a startup applying unsupervised learning techniques to robots. Musk and Zuckerberg were two of the early backers of Vicarious. The startup…
July 25, 2017
Khosla Ventures leads $50 million investment in Vicarious’ AI tech
Vicarious, which is working on narrowing the gap between human and artificial intelligence, announced today that it has raised $50 million in a round led by Khosla Ventures. The Union City, California-based startup is using computational neuroscience to build better machine learning models that help…
April 19, 2017
Artificial General Intelligence: What Vicarious, Kindred, And Numenta Are Working On
The artificial intelligence deals tracker page highlights all the major industries AI is transforming, from healthcare and entertainment to cybersecurity and HR tech. However, the AI algorithms used today — called “narrow AI” — are trained for very specific tasks, like engaging … Continued
December 05, 2016
Vicarious Wants To Create Human-Level Artificial Intelligence
Impossible. Crazy. Dangerous.
Scott Phoenix, founder of Vicarious, knows that people are scared and skeptical of human-level artificial intelligence. But he's building it anyway because he believes smart machines could one day cure cancer, create new forms of energy, and solve virtually every prob…
November 21, 2016
The brothers who started Vicarious Visions have created a new game studio
Game industry veterans Guha and Karthik Bala have formed a new independent game studio called Velan Studios in New York. The Bala brothers are best known for starting Vicarious Visions, an Activision-owned game studio that grew to more than 150 employees. That company worked on more than 100 games, …