Keen Technologies

Building artificial general intelligence from first principles

Dallas, United States · Founded 2022

Headquarters
Dallas, Texas
Employees
1–10
Founded
2022
Business Model
B2B
Last Round
SeedAug 2022
Rounds
1

Indexed holds 1 funding round and 5 investors for this company. The full record is or through the API.

About

Keen Technologies (operating as Keen AGI) is a research-focused artificial general intelligence startup founded in 2022 by legendary software engineer and game developer John Carmack. Based in Dallas, TX with a globally distributed team, Keen is developing scalable and decentralized algorithms for real-time reinforcement learning from first principles, with a goal of demonstrating AGI signs of life by 2030. In August 2022, Keen raised $20M led by former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and Cue co-founder Daniel Gross, with participation from Patrick Collison (Stripe), Tobi Lütke (Shopify), Sequoia Capital, and Capital Factory. Keen is partnering with Richard Sutton, principal founder of the reinforcement learning field, as chief scientific advisor.

Summary

Keen Technologies is an Artificial Intelligence company based in Dallas, United States, founded in 2022. Its most recent funding was a Seed round in Aug 2022. Investors include Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross and Sequoia Capital.

Funding History

SeedSeed RoundAug 2022

Investors

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