Former Cohere VP Launches $40M Startup to Replace Billion-Dollar AI Scaling with Real-Time Learning Systems

Former Cohere VP Sara Hooker launches Adaption Labs with $20-40M in seed funding, challenging the billion-dollar AI scaling paradigm by developing systems that continuously learn and adapt in real-time rather than relying on increasingly expensive traditional model scaling approaches showing diminishing returns.

• Sara Hooker, former Cohere VP of AI Research, launches Adaption Labs with the belief that scaling large language models has become inefficient and is reaching its limits
• The startup focuses on building AI systems that continuously adapt and learn from real-world experiences in real-time, rather than relying on expensive scaling approaches that cost billions
• Adaption Labs recently closes a seed funding round reportedly between $20-40 million as growing evidence suggests diminishing returns from traditional AI model scaling methods