Standard Intelligence Raises $75M Series A for Computer-Use Foundation Model FDM-1

Seattle-based startup Standard Intelligence raised $75 million in Series A funding led by Sequoia Capital and Spark Capital for FDM-1, a foundation model trained on annotated video of users interacting with software GUIs to automate complex computer tasks. The company had only 6 employees at the time of the raise. FDM-1 targets use cases including software vulnerability scanning, CAD design, and general GUI automation. The funding will expand compute capacity and develop AI safety guardrails.