FYDY in talks to raise $12 Mn from Lightspeed General Catalyst

Frontier AI research startup FYDY (Fuzzy Dynamics) is in advanced talks to raise $12 Mn in its maiden funding round, sources told Inc42. Lightspeed Venture Partners and General Catalyst are co-leading the round, the sources said.

The San Francisco-headquartered startup has five cofounders: Alapan Chaudhuri, Shivansh Subramanian, Anvay Karmore, Tanishq Chaudhary, and Zeeshan Ahmed.

Its team is spread across India and the US, and it is currently hiring researchers and engineers.

FYDY is building what it calls “cognitive machines” that learn continuously from experience. Its long-term goal is safe artificial superintelligence capable of understanding and acting autonomously in the real world.

The startup has launched OpenScientist, an AI research studio currently in private beta, initially built for its own research and now rolling out to a small group of labs and researchers.

The platform helps users search research papers, explore mathematical problems, run experiments, and analyse data.

“We are working with leading researchers across reinforcement learning, world models, robotics and neuroscience. These are the fields we believe converge into machine cognition,” the company says on its website.

FYDY says its founding team includes ICPC World Finalists and Physics & Astronomy Olympiad alumni.