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Adaption AI

Adaption is an artificial intelligence (AI) company based in San Francisco. the company was founded in 2026 by Sara Hooker and Sudip Roy, former DeepMind and Cohere executives.

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Adaption
TypePrivate
IndustryArtificial intelligence
Founded2026
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
,
United States
Key people
Sara Hooker (Co-founder)
Sudip Roy (Co-founder, CTO)
Websitewww.adaptionlabs.ai

Adaption is an artificial intelligence (AI) company based in San Francisco. the company was founded in 2026 by Sara Hooker and Sudip Roy, former DeepMind and Cohere executives.12

History

Adaption, an AI company based in San Francisco, it was founded in 2026 by Sara Hooker and Sudip Roy, former Cohere executives. Both founders previously held research roles at Google.345

On February 6, 2026, Adaption Labs exited stealth mode by announcing a $50 million seed funding round. The round was led by Emergence Capital Partners, with participation from Threshold Ventures, Mozilla Ventures, Fifty Years, Neo, E14 Fund, Alpha Intelligence Capital. 16

Technology and products

Adaption develops AI systems focused on continuous learning and efficient model adaptation. The company says its approach reduces computational costs and energy use compared to traditional training methods.789

In February 2026, the company launched AutoScientist, an automated fine-tuning tool designed to reduce human intervention in model training.1011

References

References

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  10. Brandom, Russell (2026-05-13). "Adaption aims big with AutoScientist, an AI tool that helps models train themselves". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2026-06-15.
  11. "Adaption's AutoScientist aims to make AI training faster and more adaptive". The Economic Times. 2026-05-15. ISSN 0013-0389. Retrieved 2026-06-07.