Standard Intelligence Rides Neolab Fervor with Computer Use Model

Pedestrians in downtown San Francisco are used to seeing Waymos navigating the streets. But two months ago, people in the South Park neighborhood saw something new: a Toyota Rav4 driving around with a laptop propped on the dashboard. The laptop was running a new breed of AI model, known as a “computer use model,” from a two-year-old startup called Standard Intelligence . The “computer use model” can operate a computer to do a range of tasks from testing a banking website to deleting spam emails—and even steering a car, which other similar agents would struggle with. Standard Intelligence is rethinking the data that goes into training such models, which traditionally consists of textual data. While the startup is still small, its approach is drawing significant interest: it recently raised $75 million at a valuation of $500 million, including the funds, it told The Information exclusively. Sequoia Capital and Spark Capital led the round. That’s more than 16 times its seed round valuation from late 2024.

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