# Prime Intellect: physical AI company

Canonical ID: `a4e18a24-92a5-4ee3-93cb-b004344583f1`

## Key facts

- **Positioning:** GPU marketplace + distributed training stack; aggregates capacity from 50+ third-party datacenters rather than owning campuses
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, remote-friendly
- **GPU inventory:** H100, H200, B200, and B300 instances offered on-demand and via reserved clusters; total fleet size not publicly disclosed
- **Announced hourly pricing:** H200 (80 GB) spot instances from $0.47/hr; on-demand H100/H200/B200/B300 tiers
- **Datacenter footprint:** 50+ partner datacenters worldwide via colocation and aggregation; no owned campuses disclosed
- **Silicon partnerships:** Nvidia (investor and primary silicon); Intel (investor)
- **Named customers:** Ramp, Zapier, Character.ai, Goodfire, Browserbase, Standard Intelligence
- **Investors:** [Founders Fund, Radical Ventures, Nvidia, Intel; angels include Andrej Karpathy and John Schulman](/investors.md) ([see investors](/investors.md))
- **INTELLECT-1 training run:** 10B-parameter open model trained on 1T tokens across up to 112 H100s in five countries over 42 days using the PRIME/DiLoCo framework with int8 all-reduce (~400x bandwidth reduction)
- **Distributed training efficiency:** 96% compute utilization US-only; 85.6% transatlantic; 83% global on the INTELLECT-1 run
- **Public/private status:** Private, venture-backed

- **Slug:** prime-intellect
- **Status:** active
- **Founded:** 2024
- **HQ:** San Francisco, United States

## Models

_No models registered._

## Supplies to

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## Common questions

### What is Prime Intellect?

Prime Intellect is a San Francisco based GPU cloud and distributed training platform that positions itself as an "open superintelligence stack," combining an on-demand and reserved GPU marketplace with an in-house training and inference framework. Rather than owning a fleet of datacenters like CoreWeave or Nebius, the company aggregates capacity from more than fifty third-party datacenter operators and resells it through a single API, competing on price, geographic breadth, and open research artifacts rather than hyperscale contracts.

### What does Prime Intellect make?

Prime Intellect has no robot models recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Prime Intellect builds physical robots.

### Is Prime Intellect publicly traded?

No. Prime Intellect is privately held and not publicly traded, per the DEPLOY registry.

### How can I invest in Prime Intellect?

Prime Intellect is a private company; its shares are not available on public markets, so retail investors cannot buy the stock today.

### Where is Prime Intellect headquartered?

Prime Intellect is headquartered in San Francisco, United States.

### Who owns Prime Intellect?

Prime Intellect is privately held; ownership sits with its founders and private investors.

### Is Prime Intellect a top robotics company?

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, Prime Intellect ranks in roughly the top 98% of companies tracked by the registry.

### When was Prime Intellect founded?

Prime Intellect was founded in 2024.


## Sources (4)

1. https://www.primeintellect.ai/
2. https://www.primeintellect.ai/blog/intellect-1-release
3. https://www.primeintellect.ai/blog/intellect-1-release
4. https://www.primeintellect.ai/

## The verified answers

- [Which companies have the most robots deployed](/which-companies-have-the-most-robots-deployed.md)
- [Which operators run the most robots](/which-operators-run-the-most-robots.md)
- [Which robot operators cover the most countries](/which-robot-operators-cover-the-most-countries.md)

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