Imbue (@imbue_ai) — Twitter Score 26 out of 1000

Imbue is an AI research and software company co-founded by Kanjun Qiu and Josh Albrecht that builds reasoning-focused AI agents and open, user-controlled software. Imbue's Twitter Score is 26 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #37,530 (top 10%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.

Imbue was originally founded in 2021 under the name Generally Intelligent, and adopted its current name when announcing a Series B financing round of $200 million at a valuation of over $1 billion. That round drew participation from Astera Institute, NVIDIA, Kyle Vogt, Simon Last, and others. Imbue subsequently secured an additional $12 million in combined funding from the Alexa Fund and Eric Schmidt, while earlier backers contributed over $20 million and committed more than $100 million in future funding through options and technical milestones.

Imbue initially concentrated on generally capable AI agents and open-sourced Avalon, a reinforcement-learning simulator, environment, and benchmark that was presented at NeurIPS 2022. Its current focus is training foundation models optimized for reasoning and developing agents that can reason and write code. Imbue describes its broader mission as building an open agent ecosystem in which users can understand, modify, and verify their own agents. Among its backers and advisors, Jed McCaleb, whose Astera Institute led the Series B, is also a co-founder of the crypto company Ripple, providing an indirect connection to the crypto space. Additional backers include Drew Houston. Imbue has published 1,051 posts and has been mentioned by 22 accounts a total of 47 times.

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Imbue draws a technically oriented following across the AI and technology space. The accounts that follow Imbue include 113 founders, 44 angel investors, 25 influencers and 3 VCs, among them Fred Ehrsam, Jason, Roon, Martin Shkreli, Andrew Steinwold and CASEY.