Founded Year

2022

Stage

Series B | Alive

Total Raised

$415M

Valuation

$0000 

Last Raised

$350M | 2 yrs ago

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About Adept

Adept provides enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) solutions in the technology sector. The company offers tools that automate workflows across various software applications, allowing users to perform other tasks. Adept's AI is integrated into existing business processes, executing tasks while following company rules and procedures. It was founded in 2022 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Headquarters Location

350 Rhode Island Street Suite 400S

San Francisco, California, 94103,

United States

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Latest Adept News

硅谷正在崛起“OpenAI黑帮”

Mar 5, 2025

硅谷正在崛起“OpenAI黑帮” 目前,Thinking Machines Lab尚未透露任何产品、技术的时间表或具体细节,这家公司的公开的信息只有超过20人的OpenAI前员工团队,以及他们的愿景:构建“每个人都能获得知识和工具,让AI为人们的独特需求和目标服务”的未来。 OpenAI系创业者的资本号召力已形成“滚雪球效应”。在Murati之前,OpenAI前首席科学家Ilya Sutskever创立的SSI就已经仅凭OpenAI基因和一个理念和就拿到了300亿美元估值。 自2018年马斯克退出OpenAI以来,前OpenAI员工创办了超过30家新公司,总融资额超过90亿美元。这些公司形成了覆盖AI安全(Anthropic)、基础设施(xAI)、垂直应用(Perplexity)的完整生态链。 这让人不禁想起2002年PayPal被eBay收购后,马斯克、彼得·蒂尔等创始人出走,形成的那波硅谷创业浪潮——"PayPal帮",在这波浪潮中崛起了特斯拉、LinkedIn、YouTube等传奇公司。OpenAI的出走员工们也在形成他们的“OpenAI帮”。 只不过“OpenAI帮”的剧本更为激进:“PayPal帮”用10年缔造了2家千亿企业,而“OpenAI帮”在ChatGPT推出之后,仅用两年就催生了5家百亿估值的公司,其中Anthropic估值615亿美元,Ilya Sutskever的SSI估值300亿美元,马斯克的xAI估值240亿美元,未来三年内“OpenAI帮”中很可能会诞生千亿美元独角兽。 “OpenAI帮”掀起的新一轮硅谷"人才裂变",影响整个硅谷,甚至重塑全球AI的权力版图。 OpenA的11位联合创始人中目前仅Sam Altman和语言与代码生成团队负责人Wojciech Zaremba仍在职。 2024年是OpenAI的离职高峰。这一年中,Ilya Sutskever(2024年5月离职)、John Schulman(2024年8月离职)等相继离职。OpenAI安全团队从30人缩减至16人,减员47%;高管中首席技术官Mira Murati、首席研究官Bob McGrew等关键人物先后离职;技术团队中,GPT系列首席设计师Alec Radford、Sora负责人Tim Brooks(加入谷歌)等核心技术人才出走;深度学习专家Ian Goodfellow加入谷歌, Andrej Karpathy则二度离开后创办教育公司。 “聚是一团火,散是满天星”。 首先是延续OpenAI基因的“嫡系部队”,他们可以说是一群OpenAI 2.0的野心家。 他们的“开放科学宣言“直指OpenAI近年来的封闭化趋势,计划通过技术博客、论文和代码的持续公开,打造”更透明的AGI研发路径“。这也在AI业界引发了一些连锁反应:谷歌DeepMind的3名顶尖研究员带着Transformer-XL架构跳槽加入。 而Ilya Sutskever的Safe Superintelligence Inc.(SSI)则选择了另一条道路。Sutskever与另两位研究人员Daniel Gross和Daniel Levy共同创立公司,他们放弃所有短期商业化目标,专注于构建”不可逆的安全超级智能“——这个近乎哲学命题的技术框架,公司刚刚成立,a16z、红杉资本等机构就决定投资10亿美元为Sutskever的理想”买单“。 另一个派系则是ChatGPT之前就已经离开的“颠覆者“。 这一派中另一位代表人物是马斯克,虽然马斯克在2018年就已经离开了OpenAI,但其创办的xAI的创始成员中也有一些曾就职于OpenAI,其中包括Igor Babuschkin和后来重返OpenAI的Kyle Kosic。由于有马斯克的强大资源助力,xAI在人才、数据、算力等多个方面都对OpenAI形成了威胁。通过整合马斯克旗下X平台的实时社交数据流,xAI的Grok-3能即时抓取X平台的热点事件生成答案,而ChatGPT的训练数据截止至2023年,时效性差距显著,这种数据闭环是OpenAI依赖微软生态难以复制的。 不过,马斯克对xAI的定位并不是OpenAI的颠覆者,而是要找回“OpenAI“的初心。xAI坚持“最大限度开源”策略,例如Grok-1模型以Apache 2.0协议开源,吸引全球开发者参与生态建设。这与OpenAI近年来的闭源倾向(如GPT-4仅提供API服务)形成鲜明对比。 第三派则是一些重构产业逻辑的“破局者”。 OpenAI前研究科学家Aravind Srinivas创办的Perplexity,是最先用AI大模型改造搜索引擎的公司之一。Perplexity通过AI直接生成答案取代了搜索页面的链接列表,如今每天搜索量超过2000万次,融资规模也超过了5亿美元(估值90亿美元)。 Adept创始人是OpenAI的前工程副总裁David Luan,他参与了语言、超级计算、强化学习的技术研究,以及GPT-2、GPT-3、CLIP 和 DALL-E项目的安全和政策制定。Adept专注开发AI Agent,目标是通过大模型结合工具调用能力,帮助用户自动化完成复杂任务(如生成合规报告、设计图纸等)。其开发的ACT-1模型能直接操作办公软件、Photoshop等。目前这家公司的核心创始团队,包括David Luan已经转投了亚马逊的AGI团队。 Covariant是一家具身智能创业公司,估值10亿美元。其创始团队均来自OpenAI解散的机器人团队,技术基因源于GPT模型研发经验. 专注开发机器人基础模型,目标是通过多模态AI实现机器人自主操作,尤其聚焦仓储物流自动化。不过,目前Covariant的核心创始团队中的三位“OpenAI帮“成员Pieter Abbeel、Peter Chen和Rocky Duan,均已加入亚马逊。 部分“OpenAI帮“创业公司 联合创始人Ilya Sutskever离职创立SSI公司,首席科学家Andrej Karpathy公开分享Transformer优化经验,Sora视频生成项目负责人Tim Brooks转投谷歌DeepMind。在技术团队中,超过半数GPT早期版本作者已离职,其中的多数都已经加入到OpenAI竞争对手的行列中。 与此同时,据跟踪招聘信息的Lightcast汇编的数据,OpenAI 自己的招聘重点似乎也变了。2021年,该公司 23% 的招聘信息是一般研究职位。2024 年,一般研究仅占其招聘信息的 4.4%,这也从侧面反应了科研人才在OpenAI中的地位正在发生变化。 商业化转型带来的组织文化冲突愈发明显,员工规模三年扩张225%的同时,早期黑客精神逐渐被KPI体系取代,有研究人员直言"被迫从探索性研究转向产品迭代"。 这种战略摇摆导致OpenAI陷入双重困境:既需要持续产出突破性技术维持估值,又不得不面对前员工利用其方法论快速复刻成果的竞争压力。 03 是硅谷要分裂OpenAI? 加州自1872年立法禁止竞业协议以来,其独特的法律环境成为硅谷创新的催化剂。根据《加州商业与职业法典》第16600条,任何限制职业自由的条款均属无效,这一制度设计直接推动了技术人才的自由流动。 硅谷程序员平均任职周期仅3-5年,远低于其他科技中心,这种高频流动形成了"知识溢出"效应——以仙童半导体为例,其离职员工创立了英特尔、AMD等12家半导体巨头,奠定了硅谷的产业基础。 禁止竞业协议的法律,看似对创新公司保护不够,实则却更加促进了创新。技术人员的流动,加速了科技的扩散,降低了创新的门槛。 2024年美国联邦贸易委员会(FTC)预计,2024年4月全面禁止竞业协议后,美国的创新活力将进一步释放,政策实施首年或将新增企业8500家,专利数量激增17000-29000项,新增专利3000-5000项,未来10年中,每年专利增速为11-19%。 资本也是OpenAI帮崛起的重要推手。 首先资本是驱动创新的引擎,天使投资人提供的不只是资金,还包括行业资源整合。优步创立时的种子资金只有两位创始人的20万美元,仅有3辆注册出租车。在接受了125万美元的天使投资后,开始了快速融资,到2015年估值已达400亿美元。 风险资本对科技产业的长期关注,也促进了科技产业升级。红杉资本1978年注资苹果、1984年代投资甲骨文,奠定其在半导体和计算机领域的影响力;2020年则开始深度布局人工智能,参与OpenAI等前沿项目。国际资本(如微软)对AI的百亿美元级投入,都促使生成式AI技术商业化周期从数年缩短至数月级。 资本还为创新公司提供了更高的容错能力。加速器筛选失败项目的速度与成功项目同等重要,据初创企业分析机构startuptalky统计全球范围内的初创企业失败率为90%,硅谷的初创的失败率为83%,虽然初创企业不容易成功,但在风险资本的投资网格中,失败经验可以快速转化为新项目的养分。 图片来源:startuptalky.com 不过,资本也在一定程度上改变了这些创新公司的发展路径。 头部AI项目未发布产品即获超十亿美元估值,这变相导致了其他中小创新团队资源获取难度成倍增加。这种结构性失衡在区域分布中更为凸显,数据库管理公司Dealroom的调研结果显示,美国湾区单季度获得的风险投资(247亿美元)相当于全球第2-5名风投中心(伦敦、北京、班加罗尔、柏林)的总和。与此同时,印度等新兴市场虽然实现133%的融资增长,但97%的资金流向估值超10亿美元的"独角兽"企业。 此外,资本有很强的“路径依赖“,资本更喜欢可量化回报的领域,这也导致了很多新兴基础科学的创新在资金层面难以得到有力支撑。比如量子计算领域,国内量子计算创业公司本源量子的创始人郭国平,在创业初期就曾因为资金不足,卖房创业。郭国平第一次拉融资实在2015年,当年科技部公布的数据显示,我国在科研方面的总投入不足GDP的2.2%,其中基础研究经费在研发投入里只占4.7%。 不光是缺乏支持,大资本也在通过“金钱“的诱惑,来锁定顶尖人才,这使得初创企业CTO级岗位薪酬基本锁定在七位数(美国公司则为美元,中国公司则为人民币),形成"巨头垄断人才-资本追逐巨头"的循环。 不过,这些“OpenAI帮”的估值大幅前置也存在着一定的风险。 参考来源: 1.Meet the OpenAI mafia: These 23 former employees left the AI juggernaut and founded startups that have collectively raised billions(Business Insider) 2.Mira Murati's new AI startup is set to be valued at $9 billion, sources say(Business Insider) 3.From Wall Street to Silicon Valley, AI specialists are a hot commodity(Business Insider) 4.The OpenAI Mafia Just Got Bigger(analytics indiamag) 5.Noncompete Rule(FTC) 7.OpenAI又一高管离职!深扒98名前员工去向,探秘万亿估值AI巨无霸乱局(智东西)

Adept Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

  • When was Adept founded?

    Adept was founded in 2022.

  • Where is Adept's headquarters?

    Adept's headquarters is located at 350 Rhode Island Street, San Francisco.

  • What is Adept's latest funding round?

    Adept's latest funding round is Series B.

  • How much did Adept raise?

    Adept raised a total of $415M.

  • Who are the investors of Adept?

    Investors of Adept include Greylock Partners, Addition, Caterina Fake, Microsoft, NVIDIA and 18 more.

  • Who are Adept's competitors?

    Competitors of Adept include Anthropic, Hercules, LightOn, Aleph Alpha, Dify.AI and 7 more.

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