Organization
Prime Intellect
Prime Intellect is an AI model developer and research lab based in Dover, Delaware109. This catalog lists 2 open model releases and 1 software project from Prime Intellect, under licenses including the MIT License and the Apache License 2.0 (prime-rl).
Documented roles: Model developer · Research lab · Compute infrastructure · Developer platform
Prime Intellect provides GPU compute, a hosted post-training platform (Lab) with an Environments Hub for reinforcement-learning environments, inference, and code sandboxes, and trains open-weight models such as the INTELLECT series. It maintains the open-source prime-rl training framework and the verifiers environment library.1211
Using this organization’s offerings
The detailed audience, self-hosting, pricing, and restrictions review has not yet been completed. Consult the sourced product records below and the publisher’s current terms. Missing detail means unknown, not unavailable.
Key facts
- Ownership (separate from openness)
- Privately held
Recorded classification; fact-level ownership verification pending.
- Legal form
- Corporation incorporated in Delaware in 2024, per its SEC Form D filing.10
- Founded
- Unknown
- Sectors
- Open models, Cloud, Research
What is and isn’t public
Prime Intellect publishes INTELLECT model weights on Hugging Face (INTELLECT-3 under the MIT License) and open-sources its prime-rl training framework and verifiers library. INTELLECT-3 is post-trained from a third-party base model (GLM-4.5-Air-Base). Its compute, Lab, and inference offerings are hosted services. This catalog assesses openness per release.1512132
Products
Hosted model products
Labeled Hosted product/API — this describes how a documented product is delivered (hosted access). It does not determine whether underlying weights or code are open; assess the specific release and its licenses.
| Product | Kind | Documented delivery and access | Reviewed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prime Intellect Inference (external site: docs.primeintellect.ai) | Hosted model API | OpenAI-compatible inference API billed per input and output token from a Prime Intellect account balance; API keys are created on the Prime Intellect platform.5 | Sep 29, 2026 |
Other products
| Product | Kind | Documented delivery and access | Reviewed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prime Intellect Compute (external site: docs.primeintellect.ai) | Compute service | On-demand GPU instances, multi-node clusters, and reserved clusters; the CLI reference documents provisioning instances with the prime CLI and an account API key.123 | Sep 29, 2026 |
| Lab (hosted training and Environments Hub) (external site: docs.primeintellect.ai) | Developer tool | Hosted platform for running reinforcement-learning training on Prime Intellect's infrastructure, launched from the prime CLI with a dashboard for monitoring runs; it includes the Environments Hub and hosted evaluations.42 | Sep 29, 2026 |
Cataloged artifacts
Model families
- INTELLECTModel family
Model releases
- INTELLECT-3Model releaseAvailability: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.2): Open-weight
- INTELLECT-3.1Model releaseAvailability: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.2): Open-weight
Research stacks
- prime-rlSoftwareAvailability: Public
Notable documented facts
- INTELLECT-1, a 10B-parameter model trained from scratch on 1 trillion tokens, was trained on up to 14 concurrent nodes across three continents, with compute contributed by 30 independent community contributors, according to its model card.14
- prime-rl is released under Apache 2.0 and verifiers under the MIT License.1213
In the news
Prime Intellect releases a Rust rewrite of Prime Agent with Windows support in beta
On October 9, 2026 Prime Intellect said on its blog that it had shipped Prime Agent rewritten from the ground up in Rust. The post describes Prime Agent as a long-running daemon with a worker process per session. With the rewrite, Prime Intellect is also releasing native Windows support, in beta, and installation through Homebrew. The post says Prime Agent remains open source and links to its GitHub repository; it does not name a license, and USASI has not confirmed one or tested the software.
Prime Intellect releases prime-rl 0.8.0 with multi-agent reinforcement learning support
Prime Intellect published version 0.8.0 of prime-rl on GitHub on August 7, 2026. The release notes say it integrates verifiers 0.3.0 for multi-agent (single-policy) training and adds two named algorithms for multi-agent environments: RAE (Role-conditioned Advantage Estimation) and Hierarchical GRPO. The notes also list a move of the inference stack to vLLM 0.26.0, a NIXL and ModelExpress weight-synchronization path, and ZMQ as the default rollout transport. USASI has not tested this release.
What this catalog does not know
- Founding date: not documented in the sources reviewed.
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U.S. eligibility
Eligible · basis: U.S. headquarters
Prime Intellect, Inc. is a Delaware corporation; its July 2026 SEC Form D filing lists its principal place of business in Dover, Delaware, and its terms of service and privacy policy use the same Dover address. Its careers page lists roles in San Francisco and New York City, and its homepage invites applicants to work in San Francisco or remotely. All documented locations are in the United States.1097861
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