Filed under Other · 2022
Vicarious
2010 - 2022, 12 years old
A long-horizon AI research startup building brain-inspired models for industrial robotics and visual reasoning.
Vicarious spent over a decade and a quarter billion dollars from Bezos, Musk, Zuckerberg and Samsung trying to build human-level AI through Recursive Cortical Networks, but a viable commercial product never materialized as deep learning approaches overtook its brain-inspired methods. In April 2022 the team was split between Alphabet's Intrinsic robotics unit and DeepMind, and the original Vicarious entity was folded. Financial terms were never disclosed and the outcome is widely seen as a soft landing rather than a successful exit.
- Founded
- 2010-01
- Shut down
- 2022-04-22
- Funding raised
- $250M
- Years alive
- 12
- Founders
- Scott Phoenix, Dileep George