Prime Intellect
Prime Intellect is an AI infrastructure company, founded by Vincent Weisser and Johannes Hagemann, that builds decentralized platforms for training, evaluating, and deploying large-scale AI models by pooling globally distributed compute. In 2024 it trained INTELLECT-1, a 10-billion-parameter language model, using contributors' machines spread across the US, Europe, and Asia, and later released a 32-billion-parameter model trained with fully asynchronous reinforcement learning. The company has raised over $70 million from investors including Founders Fund, CoinFund, and Menlo Ventures.
Notable people
People map
Current peopleNotable public-facing people we cover. Grouped by public roles, not reporting lines; this is not a complete staff directory.
Research
- Florian Brand
Research Engineer
- Alex L. Zhang
Research Fellow
- Will Brown
Applied Research lead
- Elie Bakouch
Pretraining and mid-training research
Other public roles
- Sankalp Shubham
RL Resident
Tools
- Prime Agent
github.comCoding and research agent built on a persistent Python REPL that treats context and subagents as variables.