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Prime Intellect

Prime Intellect

Project
DePIN (Physical Infra)Web3 AI (Agent/AIGC)

Prime Intellect is an open-source peer-to-peer compute and intelligence network that aggregates global GPU resources to enable decentralized training and inference of large AI models. It offers the Prime Compute platform, protocol smart contracts, developer docs and tooling to coordinate contributed compute and collective ownership of resulting models.

Fundraising
$150.5M
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Total raised
$130M
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SERIES A
Jul 08, 2026
Investors
NVenturesNVenturesIntel CapitalIntel CapitalDell Technologies CapitalDell Technologies CapitalKarim AtiyehKarim Atiyeh
$15M
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Extended Seed
Feb 28, 2025
Lead Investors
Founders FundFounders Fund
Investors
Sandeep NailwalSandeep NailwalIllia PolosukhinIllia PolosukhinBalaji SrinivasanBalaji SrinivasanMenlo VenturesMenlo VenturesEmadEmadDylan PatelDylan Patel
+5
$5.5M
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SEED
Apr 23, 2024
Lead Investors
CoinFundCoinFundDistributed GlobalDistributed Global
Investors
Compound VCCompound VCClement DelangueClement DelangueCollab+CurrencyCollab+CurrencyProtocol LabsProtocol LabsBenjamin FieldingBenjamin FieldingJoe LallouzJoe Lallouz
+6
Team
Vincent Weisser
Vincent WeisserCEO
Johannes Hagemann
Johannes HagemannCTO
News & Prediction
News
PANEWS
Prime Intellect Launches Reinforcement Learning Fine-Tuning Service to Support Custom Agents for AI-Native Companies
Prime Intellect launched an RFT service with RL-trainer, validator and environment hub, plus Prime Sandboxes; earlier raised $15M led by Founders Fund
PANEWS
The Holy Grail of Crypto AI: Frontier Exploration of Decentralized Training
Survey of decentralized AI training; highlights Prime Intellect’s 32B INTELLECT-2 trained asynchronously on 100+ GPUs, plus Pluralis and Gensyn
BLOCKBEATS
IOSG: The Holy Grail of Crypto AI, A Frontier Exploration of Decentralized Training
IOSG Weekly surveys decentralized AI training, compares paradigms, reviews Prime Intellect, Pluralis, Gensyn, Nous, Flock, EXO; notes INTELLECT-2 32B RL