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We build tools that put software under your control

Today, the software and agents in our lives don’t work for us—they work for the company that built them. Closed platforms lock you into their ecosystems, limit what you can do, and serve their incentives over yours.

We're building the alternative: an open agent ecosystem where you can understand, modify, and verify your agents, so they work only in your interest.

Kanjun and Josh

Our mission

create, invent, influence, coerce

Built by people who care, for people who build

We founded Imbue in 2021 to build an AGI future where humans remain at the helm, shaping powerful AI systems rather than being subordinated to them.

Josh showcasing Avalon
Nov 2022
Josh showcasing Avalon Nov 2022
Imbue team
Feb 2023
Imbue team Feb 2023

Meet the Imbumans

Allen Lian
Allen Lian
Engineering Intern
Amy Hsueh
Amy Hsueh
Operations
Andrew Laack
Product Engineer
Anna Onstad
Talent Coordinator
Ashley Slocum
Ashley Slocum
Recruiting Coordinator
Ashley Zhang
Storytelling
Bowei Liu
Infrastructure Engineering, Lead
Brandi Hagle
Brandi Hagle
Office of the CEO & CTO
Bryden Fogelman
Product Engineering, Lead
Catherine Kim
Catherine Kim
Engineering Intern
Cathy Zhao
Chief of Staff
Daniel Mewes
Capabilities Research
Daniel Won
Head of Talent
Danver Braganza
Product Engineering
Darren Jia
Darren Jia
Engineering Intern
Ehsan Noursalehi
Product Design
Evan Ryan Gunter
Capabilities Research
Gabriel Guralnick
Gabriel Guralnick
Member of Technical Staff
Glenn McDonald
Prototype Engineering
Hynek Urban
Product Engineering
Jacob Kirmayer
Engineering Intern
Jamie Simon
Research Fellow
Josh Albrecht
CTO, Co-founder
Kanjun Qiu
CEO, Co-founder
Lauren Dash
Brand Design, Lead
Maciek Łaszcz
Product Engineering
Mark Ally
Capabilities Research, Lead
Matt Boulos
Head of Policy & Safety
Matthew Schallenkamp
Infrastructure Engineering
Michelle Simonek
Operations, Lead
Millan Philipose
Product Engineering
Ming Yin
Technical Recruiter
Nancy Kwon
Nancy Kwon
Operations
Nayana Bannur
Capabilities Research
Social Media Video Editor
Nikos Plugachev
Nikos Plugachev
Engineering Intern
Qi Xiao
Infrastructure Engineering
Samuel Eisenhandler
Machine Learning Engineer
Thad Hughes
Capabilities Research
Software Engineer
Zack Polizzi
Zack Polizzi
Member of Technical Staff

Selected advisors and investors

Tom Brown
Lead author on GPT-3, Cofounder of Anthropic
Celeste Kidd
Professor of Psychology at UC Berkeley
Tim Hanson
Tim Hanson
Cofounder of Neuralink
Kyle Vogt
Kyle Vogt
CEO of Cruise Automation
Simon Last
Simon Last
Cofounder of Notion
Drew Houston
Drew Houston
CEO of Dropbox
Michael Nielsen
Author of Neural Networks and Deep Learning
Jensen Huang
Jensen Huang
CEO of NVIDIA
Eric Schmidt
Eric Schmidt
Former CEO of Google

Join us

We aim to increase human agency in the world, beginning with how we work: with radical openness, freedom, choice, and play. We’re looking for people who build from first principles, question the status quo, and operate with conviction and care.

Careers
Built by peoplewho care, for people
who build.
Building the alternative.
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