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Sapient Intelligence is a Singapore-headquartered AGI research lab betting that brain-inspired architecture, not raw scale, unlocks machine reasoning. Its 27M-parameter HRM and 1B-parameter HRM-Text releases made it one of the most-watched small labs of 2025-2026.
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Sapient Intelligence
- Seed funding, January 2025
- $22M
- Reported valuation at seed
- over $200M
- Size of the original HRM model
- 27M parameters
- HRM training set, no pre-training
- 1,000 examples
- HRM-Text training data
- ~40B tokens
- HRM-Text open-source launch
- May 18, 2026
- Reported speedup vs chain-of-thought
- 100x faster reasoning
- Team size, ex-DeepMind/DeepSeek/xAI
- 40+ researchers
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Market Overview
Market structure, where the company sits, and growth drivers.
- market map
- AI Research landscape
- AI Research growth rate
- CAGR
Total Addressable Market
Bottom-up TAM / SAM / SOM.
- Sapient Intelligence TAM
- AI Research market size
- market opportunity
Company Overview
What the company does and how it operates.
- what does Sapient Intelligence do
- Sapient Intelligence product
- business model
Product / Go-to-Market
Product, GTM motion, ICP, and who buys.
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- who uses Sapient Intelligence
- Sapient Intelligence ICP
- go-to-market
Competitive Dynamics
The Altis Market Map and the Altis Win-Rate Index.
- Sapient Intelligence competitors
- Sapient Intelligence alternatives
- who competes with Sapient Intelligence
- Sapient Intelligence win rate
Customer Signals
Retention, satisfaction, and win/loss signals.
- Sapient Intelligence reviews
- Sapient Intelligence NRR
- Sapient Intelligence churn
- current customers
- switching costs
Investment Debates
Investment thesis, moat, bull/bear, and key risks.
- Sapient Intelligence investment thesis
- Sapient Intelligence moat
- bull case bear case
- Sapient Intelligence risk factors
Monetization & Financials
Business model, revenue model, and unit economics.
- Sapient Intelligence ARR
- Sapient Intelligence revenue
- Sapient Intelligence valuation
- unit economics
Team and culture
Founders, leadership, and org.
- Sapient Intelligence founders
- Sapient Intelligence CEO background
- leadership team
- headcount
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Based on public reporting and company disclosures as of July 2026.