Standard Intelligence
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About
Standard Intelligence is a San Francisco-based AI lab focused on training foundation models for computer use 12. Founded in 2024 by Galen Mead and Devansh Pandey, who met as teenagers during the Atlas Fellowship in 2022, the company describes itself as an “aligned AGI lab” pretraining models that can learn like humans do in full generality 2. The team of six has developed FDM-1, a foundation model optimized for computer use tasks that the company says was trained on 11 million hours of video footage rather than manually annotated screenshots 13. On April 30, 2026, Standard Intelligence announced a $75M round led by Sequoia Capital and Spark Capital with participation from a group of angels and advisors including Andrej Karpathy, Stanley Druckenmiller, and Milan Kovac 123.
Funding History
| Date | Round | Amount | Lead | Co-investors |
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| 2026-04-30 | Series A | $75M | Sequoia Capital, Spark Capital | Andrej Karpathy, Stanley Druckenmiller, Milan Kovac 123 |
What Investors Say
Sequoia Capital wrote that Standard Intelligence’s “early results with its FDM-1 model moved computer use from a data-constrained regime to a compute-constrained one, a meaningful inflection in the trajectory of agentic AI research” 2.
What Founders Say
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Sources
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SiliconANGLE, “Standard Intelligence raises $75M to develop efficient computer use models,” April 30, 2026. https://siliconangle.com/2026/04/30/standard-intelligence-raises-75m-develop-efficient-computer-use-models/↩↩↩↩
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Sequoia Capital, “Standard Intelligence: Training General Intelligence in Pixel Space,” April 30, 2026. https://sequoiacap.com/article/standard-intelligence-training-general-intelligence-in-pixel-space/↩↩↩↩↩
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Pulse 2.0, “Standard Intelligence Raises $75 Million From Sequoia And Spark Capital To Scale AGI Research,” April 30, 2026. https://pulse2.com/standard-intelligence-raises-75-million-from-sequoia-and-spark-capital-to-scale-agi-research/↩↩↩