[AI Company Humans& in Talks to Raise $1 Billion at a $5 Billion Valuation] According to Forbes, former xAI researcher Eric Zelikman is establishing the AI startup Humans&, co-founded with several researchers from Google, Meta, Anthropic, OpenAI, and DeepMind. The company aims to raise $1 billion, corresponding to a valuation of approximately $5 billion. The company states that it will develop a new training paradigm that emphasizes 'human-machine collaboration,' capable of remembering and responding to individual preferences, and is expected to require computational power exceeding current mainstream methods. Co-founders include early Google employee Georges Harik, Stanford professor Noah Goodman, and Andi Peng, who previously worked on post-training and behavior reinforcement at Anthropic. Humans& has not yet disclosed its product plans.