Sooth Labs

About Sooth Labs

Sooth Labs is an artificial intelligence research lab that builds models to forecast the probability of future geopolitical, economic, and real-world events. Founded in 2026 by former Meta Platforms Inc. executives and professors from Carnegie Mellon University, the company is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The founding team includes CEO Yaser Sheikh, who was a vice president at Meta and is a visiting professor at CMU, and co-founder Ruslan Salakhutdinov, a professor at CMU who previously led Apple's first AI research team and later worked at Meta AI. The firm's core technology involves training AI models on extensive, cross-industry datasets, which can include proprietary data from clients. These models support multimodal inputs such as video, audio, and text, allowing users to query the system directly for the probability of specific events. This capability is designed to provide decision support for capital allocation and risk management. The target clientele for Sooth Labs includes institutions in the finance, defense, insurance, and real estate sectors. For instance, in a product demonstration, the system calculated a 16% probability of the WHO declaring another pandemic before 2028 and a 33% probability of the AI company Anthropic going public in the current year. In April 2026, Sooth Labs initiated a funding round to raise approximately $50 million, which would place the company's valuation at around $335 million. The round was led by Felicis Ventures and included participation from notable figures in the AI community like Yann LeCun and Google's Chief Scientist Jeff Dean. Additionally, Meta's Chief Technology Officer, Andrew Bosworth, serves as an advisor to the company.