Imbue
Imbue builds AI systems that can reason and code to accomplish large goals in the real world, creating tools to empower humans in the age of AI. The company aims to create 'truly personal computers' that give users freedom, dignity, and agency.
Founding Story
Founded in 2021 as Generally Intelligent, the company was created to build AI systems that can reason and robustly accomplish real-world tasks. The founders aimed to create truly personal computing tools that empower individuals with freedom and agency, rather than subordinating humans to AI systems. They rebranded to Imbue in September 2023 to better reflect their focus on imbuing computers with intelligence and human values.
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Leadership
Founders
Kanjun Qiu
CEO and Co-founder of Imbue. Previously Chief of Staff at Dropbox (grew company from 300 to 1,500 people), co-founder and CEO of Sourceress (ML recruiting startup). General Partner at Outset Capital. Studied computer science at MIT. Also an author.
Josh Albrecht
CTO and Co-founder of Imbue. Previously CTO at Sourceress. General Partner at Outset Capital. Holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh. Started programming as a child and worked professionally as a software engineer in high school.
Executive Team
Kanjun Qiu
Co-founder & CEO
Former Chief of Staff at Dropbox, co-founder of Sourceress, MIT computer science graduate, General Partner at Outset Capital
Josh Albrecht
Co-founder & CTO
Former CTO at Sourceress, BS and MS in Computer Science from University of Pittsburgh, General Partner at Outset Capital
Business Model
Revenue Model
AI research and development company focused on building AI systems and tools. Funded through venture capital. Sculptor product appears to be free/research preview currently. Long-term revenue model not publicly disclosed but likely to include enterprise software licenses, API usage, or subscriptions once products mature.
Target Markets
- Software engineers and developers
- AI/ML researchers
- Technology companies
- Startups building with AI
- Individual developers seeking AI coding assistance
- Future: Non-technical users wanting to build software (long-term vision)
- Software development and engineering
- Delegating coding tasks to AI agents
- Writing and implementing robust, extensible code
- Verifying AI-generated code
- Project management for AI-driven development
- Testing and running LLM-generated code safely
History & Milestones
Released Sculptor research preview - a UI for coding agents
Rebuilt and relaunched Sculptor from the ground up based on community feedback
Released 70B-parameter reasoning model and open-sourced CARBS hyperparameter optimizer, datasets, and infrastructure tools
Rebranded to Imbue and raised $200 million Series B at over $1 billion valuation
Raised additional $12 million from Alexa Fund and Eric Schmidt
2 AI Tools by Imbue
Sculptor is a UI for parallel AI coding agents that lets you run multiple coding agents in safe containers and instantly preview their changes.
Sculptor
2moDesktop UI for running parallel AI coding agents in containers with instant testing and merge conflict resolution.
