Adaption (company)
Adaption is an artificial intelligence (AI) company based in San Francisco. the company was founded in 2025 by Sara Hooker and Sudip Roy, former Cohere and Google DeepMind executives. It specializes in creating AI capable of efficient, real-time learning, a concept it terms "adaptable intelligence."
History
Adaption was established in 2025 by Hooker and Roy, who previously held research and engineering roles at Google DeepMind and Cohere.The company launched with a distributed, hybrid workforce across multiple countries and positioned itself as pursuing alternatives to large-scale model scaling strategies common in the AI industry.
The company’s launch and early strategy were covered by technology publications including BetaKit and The Logic, which described its focus on research-driven AI system design and infrastructure.
Funding
In February 2026, Adaption announced that it had raised $50 million in seed funding. The round was led by Emergence Capital, with participation from other investors. The funding was intended to support research and development of AI models designed to learn and adapt continuously, as well as to expand the company’s engineering and research teams.
Technology and Products
Adaption focuses on overcoming traditional gradient-based AI training limitations. Its goal is to develop systems that adapt dynamically with minimal computational demand and energy use, reducing costs and enabling continuous learning. Research centers on foundational methods for efficient, hardware-aware algorithm design.
See also
- Cohere
- Sakana AI
- Anthropic
- OpenAI