MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Ju e 25, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Today, AI model lab Scaled Cog itio a ou ced it has aised $100 millio i a Se ies A fu di g ou d led by Khosla Ve tu es. The compa y is focused o solvi g o e of the biggest challe ges i AI today: eliability. While AI systems have become ema kably capable, they emai p o e to mistakes a d halluci atio s that limit thei use i c itical e te p ise wo kflows. Scaled Cog itio is buildi g AI that e te p ises ca t ust, a d is al eady i p oductio with Fo tu e 500 e te p ises ac oss fi a cial se vices, healthca e, telecom, a d i su a ce — whe e a w o g a swe has eal co seque ces.
Scaled Cog itio was co-fou ded by CTO Da Klei , a UC Be keley p ofesso of AI a d leadi g atu al la guage p ocessi g esea che , a d CEO Da Roth, who togethe p eviously built a d sold o e of the fi st age tic AI compa ies to Mic osoft. The fu di g will be used to expa d the compa y’s esea ch team a d accele ate e te p ise deployme ts.
“We spe t yea s t yi g to apply AI to busi ess applicatio s a d fou d it was esse tially impossible to make these systems eliable,” said Da Roth, CEO a d co-fou de of Scaled Cog itio . “You could have a i te actio that was spectacula , thi k the si gula ity is he e, a d the look at the data a d discove the system was maki g g ievous e o s. The p oblem is ‘t esou ces o effo t, it’s a chitectu e. Solvi g it took yea s of methodical wo k a d mo e i ovatio s tha we ca cou t.”
Scaled Cog itio ’s fi st flagship model is APT (Age tic P et ai ed T a sfo me ), which delive s the co ve satio al quality of leadi g AI models while elimi ati g halluci atio s a d gua a teei g policy-adhe e t pe fo ma ce, what the compa y calls Supe -Reliable I tellige ce. APT is smalle , faste , less expe sive, a d mo e accu ate tha the f o tie models — a d available fo VPC a d self-hosted deployme t, givi g e te p ises full ow e ship of thei AI without o goi g depe de cy o thi d-pa ty model p ovide s. APT is al eady powe i g custome expe ie ce a d se vice ope atio s fo leadi g e te p ises.
Ge esys®, a global cloud leade i AI-Powe ed Expe ie ce O chest atio se vi g mo e tha 8,000 o ga izatio s i ove 100 cou t ies, utilizes APT withi the Ge esys Cloud™ platfo m fo age tic vi tual age t capabilities. Ge esys has also i vested i Scaled Cog itio .
“We’ve made a se ies of b eakth oughs that do fo co ve satio al AI what ve ifiable ei fo ceme t lea i g has do e fo codi g. Reliability is e gi ee ed i to the a chitectu e of ou models, ot bolted o afte the fact. The biggest eliability challe ge is ‘t the mistakes that look w o g; it’s the o es that look completely co ect. If you wa t AI to take eal actio s o behalf of custome s, that’s the p oblem you have to solve,” said Da Klei , CTO a d co-fou de .
“The way to quickly get i to the ma ket is to take a f o tie model a d put a laye o top. What Scaled Cog itio did was develop a diffe e t app oach, the combi e it with the best of LLMs,” said Vi od Khosla, fou di g pa t e of Khosla Ve tu es. “That took mo e esea ch a d mo e developme tal isk. Most people a e too lazy to do that. The esult is Supe -Reliable I tellige ce: a model that will ot give you a w o g a swe . I a y i dust y whe e a age t takes a eal actio , othi g else cou ts.”
AI has become i c edibly capable, but eliability emai s o e of the biggest ba ie s to e te p ise adoptio . Ove the ext twelve mo ths, compa ies usi g Scaled Cog itio ‘s models a e o t ack to automate mo e tha o e billio custome se vice i te actio s.
“Whe a system makes mistakes 30% of the time, complex issues go u esolved a d custome s do ‘t come back,” said Roth. “With ou models, most issues get fully esolved, esulti g i hu d eds of millio s saved i ope atio al costs, a d custome s who actually come away happie .”
Beyo d the model, Scaled Cog itio has built a full platfo m fo e te p ise AI deployme t: age tic tooli g, simulatio a d evaluatio f amewo ks, a d live age t mo ito i g — givi g e te p ises eve ythi g eeded to build, test, a d ope ate eliable AI at scale.
Custome expe ie ce is the fi st applicatio . The la ge oppo tu ity is the $600 billio busi ess p ocess outsou ci g ma ket — custome se vice, IT suppo t, HR, fi a ce — whe e e te p ises a e begi i g to i sou ce what they o ce outsou ced, eplaci g thi d-pa ty ma aged se vices with AI wo kfo ces they ow a d co t ol. Scaled Cog itio is buildi g the i f ast uctu e to make that possible.
Scaled Cog itio is a AI model lab buildi g Supe -Reliable I tellige ce fo the e te p ise. The compa y’s flagship model APT delive s huma -like co ve satio al flue cy while elimi ati g halluci atio s — powe i g AI age ts that follow policy a d take actio whe the stakes a e eal: ba k bala ces, medical eco ds, flight cha ges, i su a ce claims. Scaled Cog itio ‘s platfo m i cludes the model, age tic tooli g, simulatio a d evaluatio f amewo ks, a d live age t mo ito i g. Fou ded by Da Klei , a UC Be keley p ofesso of AI, a d Da Roth, who togethe built a d sold o e of the fi st age tic AI compa ies to Mic osoft.
