Reka AI, an artificial intelligence research and product company, is actively promoting its "Reka Research" AI agent, designed to scour the web and private documents to answer complex questions. The company urged users to "unlock its full potential" and "learn directly from the team who built it," as stated in a recent tweet from the official Reka account. This comes as the company continues to expand its footprint in the rapidly evolving AI landscape, having achieved a valuation of approximately $300 million.
Reka Research operates as a state-of-the-art agentic AI, capable of advanced web browsing and analysis of private documents. Its core function is to provide comprehensive answers to challenging inquiries, leveraging Reka AI's proprietary multimodal models. The agent's capabilities are continuously enhanced through Reka's ongoing research in areas like reinforcement learning and agentic tasks.
Founded in 2022 by former researchers from DeepMind and Meta FAIR, Reka AI focuses on developing groundbreaking multimodal AI models that understand and process text, images, video, and audio. The company's mission extends to building generative AI models that benefit both humanity and enterprises, aiming to create AI solutions that are not only powerful but also safe and reliable.
The company secured a Series A funding round in mid-2023, raising approximately $58 million from investors including DST Global and Radical Ventures. This investment underscored Reka AI's significant potential in the AI sector, leading to its reported $300 million valuation. The funds were earmarked for acquiring computing power, particularly from Nvidia, and expanding its business operations.
Reka AI has also forged strategic partnerships, including a collaboration with Oracle to make its multimodal models available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and an integration of Reka Flash API on Google Cloud’s Vertex AI Model Garden. These alliances aim to democratize access to cutting-edge AI models and accelerate the development of AI-powered applications across various industries. Recent reports have also indicated that Snowflake is in talks to acquire Reka AI for over $1 billion, signaling strong market interest in Reka's advanced AI capabilities.