Viral AI Agent Instinct Raises $1B Series C at a $10B Valuation
Instinct has raised $1 billion from Sequoia, Benchmark and Coatue at a $10 billion valuation, 33 days after its Series B. We rebuild the funding timeline, work through the arithmetic of a 200-fold markup, and look at compute, Meta’s Muse, privacy and how the free agent might make money.