AI2 Logo
incubator logo

Menu

You’re ready to invent the future

We’re your AI-first

to help get it done

video

MEET THE TEAM

The Incubator

01:34

play

The AI2 Incubator supports top-tier founders creating AI-first startups. Each year we help world-class engineers and entrepreneurs build their visions into high-growth startups.

Funding raised by our startups

$200M+

Collective valuation of our startups

$1B+

icon

How We Help

Inventing the future, with you

Any VC can write a check, but what truly sets us apart is our unparalleled technical and AI expertise.

As a founder in our incubator, you’ll gain access to more than just advice. With our heritage at the Allen Institute for AI—founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen—we’ve been singularly focused on commercializing AI long before it became a buzzword.

Our core team includes pioneers like Oren Etzioni, a leader in AI for over three decades, and our deep technical expertise means we don’t just back you financially—we help you build breakthrough products, navigate complex challenges, and accelerate your company’s growth.

How We Help

other people working
person whiteboarding
guitar signing
people working
teal gradient
icon

Who Who Help

We work with founders and early stage teams from all different backgrounds.

We've helped dozens of startups succeed—either individual founders who are just getting going or small teams that already have a bit of momentum—and we can almost certainly help you as well.

It's time to control your own destiny and make your dent in the universe. Why not you? And why not now?

Learn More

Typical Founder Types

ai research

AI Researchers

ai research

Software Engineers

ai research

Scientists

Life, Bio, Physical, Health, Climate, Etc.

ai research

Product Leaders

Business, Design, PM, TPM, Etc

ai research

Small Existing
Teams/Startups

icon

Inventing The Future

The next horizon of artificial intelligence: foundation models and beyond

Few periods in history have been more exciting to start a company than now.

Large-scale foundation models such as GPT, Claude, and DALL-E have taken the world of AI by storm. Previous AI tasks—from text categorization to object detection—can now be accomplished with much less curated labeled data. This is huge for many companies building AI solutions using prior technologies.

However, the new and even more exciting frontier is the exploration of using foundation models to generate things from email prose to software code, from design artifacts to visual arts. Companies such as Hugging Face and Stability AI continue to make steady progress making foundation models easily accessible, and the cost of training and running these types of models continues to decrease rapidly.

Through our deep expertise and our strategic relationship with AI2—a world-class AI research institute—we support entrepreneurs in turning these important technological advances into impactful products and companies.


Below are some of the broad areas of opportunities we are actively exploring.

Main Technical Focus Areas

01

Task-Centric AI

+

02

FMOps as an evolution of MLOps

+

03

Domain-Specific FMs (DSFMs)

+

04

Generative/Creative AI

+

05

Other

+

Portfolio Company Highlights

ALL COMPANIES

OZETTE

WHYLABS

LEXION

WELLSAID LABS

XNOR

Ozette unlocks the secrets of the immune system with AI

LEARN MORE

Ready to build the next great company and change the world?

We specialize in helping founders from research, engineering, business, product, health, science, or bio backgrounds to build their vision into a high-growth startup, with AI and foundation models playing a major role.

Apply

person working

You’re ready to invent the future

We’re your AI-first

to help get it done

video

The Incubator

01:34

play

The AI2 Incubator supports top-tier founders creating AI-first startups. Each year we help world-class engineers and entrepreneurs build their visions into high-growth startups.

Funding raised by our startups

$200M+

Collective valuation of our startups

$1B+

icon

How We Help

Inventing the future, with you

Any VC can write a check, but what truly sets us apart is our unparalleled technical and AI expertise.

As a founder in our incubator, you’ll gain access to more than just advice. With our heritage at the Allen Institute for AI—founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen—we’ve been singularly focused on commercializing AI long before it became a buzzword.

Our core team includes pioneers like Oren Etzioni, a leader in AI for over three decades, and our deep technical expertise means we don’t just back you financially—we help you build breakthrough products, navigate complex challenges, and accelerate your company’s growth.

How We Help

other people working
person whiteboarding
guitar signing
people working
teal gradient
icon

Who Who Help

We work with founders and early stage teams from all different backgrounds.

We've helped dozens of startups succeed—either individual founders who are just getting going or small teams that already have a bit of momentum—and we can almost certainly help you as well.

It's time to control your own destiny and make your dent in the universe. Why not you? And why not now?

Learn More

Typical Founder Types

ai research

AI Researchers

ai research

Software Engineers

ai research

Scientists

Life, Bio, Physical, Health, Climate, Etc.

ai research

Product Leaders

Business, Design, PM, TPM, Etc

ai research

Small Existing
Teams/Startups

icon

Inventing The Future

The next horizon of artificial intelligence: foundation models and beyond

Few periods in history have been more exciting to start a company than now.

Large-scale foundation models such as GPT, Claude, and DALL-E have taken the world of AI by storm. Previous AI tasks—from text categorization to object detection—can now be accomplished with much less curated labeled data. This is huge for many companies building AI solutions using prior technologies.

However, the new and even more exciting frontier is the exploration of using foundation models to generate things from email prose to software code, from design artifacts to visual arts. Companies such as Hugging Face and Stability AI continue to make steady progress making foundation models easily accessible, and the cost of training and running these types of models continues to decrease rapidly.

Through our deep expertise and our strategic relationship with AI2—a world-class AI research institute—we support entrepreneurs in turning these important technological advances into impactful products and companies.


Below are some of the broad areas of opportunities we are actively exploring.

Main Technical Focus Areas

01

Task-Centric AI

+

02

FMOps as an evolution of MLOps

+

03

Domain-Specific FMs (DSFMs)

+

04

Generative/Creative AI

+

05

Other

+

Portfolio Company Highlights

ALL COMPANIES

OZETTE

WHYLABS

LEXION

WELLSAID LABS

XNOR

Ozette unlocks the secrets of the immune system with AI

LEARN MORE

Ready to build the next great company and change the world?

We specialize in helping founders from research, engineering, business, product, health, science, or bio backgrounds to build their vision into a high-growth startup, with AI and foundation models playing a major role.

Apply

person working
horizontal separator

Join our newsletter

AI2 Logo
incubator logo

Join our newsletter

Join our newsletter

AI2 Logo
incubator logo

© AI2 Incubator · All Rights Reserved

Seattle, WA

Twitter

LinkedIn

Privacy

Terms of Service