Prime Intellect

Decentralized compute marketplace and open-stack platform for training AI models

AI 📍 San Francisco, CA Founded 2024

Current Valuation

Private

as of 2025-Q1

PRIVATE

Prime Intellect is building an open, decentralized stack for training AI models — combining a global compute marketplace with tooling for reinforcement-learning post-training, environments, evaluations, and inference. The company demonstrated decentralized training with its INTELLECT-1 open model run. In February 2025, Prime Intellect raised a $15M Series A led by Founders Fund, bringing total funding to over $20M to advance its open-superintelligence-stack thesis.

Company Profile

CEO

Vincent Weisser

Founded

2024

San Francisco, CA

Employees

~30

Total Raised

$21M

Growth

Early-stage; compute marketplace + open-model training momentum

Last Round

Series A — $50M (Jan 2026) · Lead: Founders Fund

IPO Status

private

Founders & Key People

Vincent WeisserJohannes Hagemann

Investors

Founders Fund · Menlo Ventures · CoinFund · Distributed Global

Products

Global compute marketplace (multi-cloud + crypto-native GPU pools)
INTELLECT-1: open decentralized LLM training run
Prime Intellect Stack (RL post-training, environments, evals, inference)

Competitors

Together AI · Lambda Labs · io.net · Render Network

AI ComputeDecentralizedOpen SourceGPU MarketplaceCrypto-adjacent