Viral AI startup Instinct has raised $350 million at a $2.5 billion valuation

病毒式 AI 初创公司 Instinct 完成 3.5 亿美元融资，估值达 25 亿美元

Instinct, a startup founded only last year and helmed by a 23-year-old, has managed to ride the wave of AI enthusiasm toward a gargantuan valuation over the course of the summer. Instinct 是一家仅在去年成立、由一位 23 岁年轻人掌舵的初创公司。在今年夏天，该公司成功乘着 AI 热潮的东风，获得了惊人的估值。

The company, which offers an AI assistant that has inspired enthusiasm among its early users, told the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday that it had raised $250 million in a recent Series B funding round. That new round brings the company’s total funding to $350 million and gives the startup a valuation of $2.5 billion. 该公司提供的一款 AI 助手在早期用户中引发了热烈反响。周三，公司向《华尔街日报》透露，其在最近的 B 轮融资中筹集了 2.5 亿美元。这轮新融资使其总融资额达到 3.5 亿美元，公司估值也随之达到 25 亿美元。

That new funding round was co-led by Index Ventures and Benchmark, the Journal reported. Instinct, which is offered by the company Spear Street Technology and led by founder Noah Shinn, is an agent that the company says can efficiently organize your life. Users connect it to their apps and devices and can communicate with it via texts and calls. 据《华尔街日报》报道，本轮融资由 Index Ventures 和 Benchmark 共同领投。Instinct 由 Spear Street Technology 公司提供，创始人为 Noah Shinn。该公司称，Instinct 是一款能够高效打理你生活的智能代理。用户将其连接到自己的应用程序和设备后，可以通过短信和通话与它进行交流。

“I’m thrilled with everything our early users are doing with Instinct,” Shinn wrote in a tweet on Wednesday. “They’ve told us they’ve planned cross-country road trips, bought weekly groceries and concert tickets, and cancelled hundreds of dollars of subscriptions. Someone’s even planning their wedding with Instinct.” “我对早期用户利用 Instinct 所做的一切感到非常兴奋，”Shinn 周三在推特上写道。“他们告诉我们，他们已经用它规划了跨国公路旅行、购买了每周的杂货和演唱会门票，并取消了数百美元的订阅服务。甚至有人正在用 Instinct 筹备他们的婚礼。”

Instinct, which rocks a decidedly lo-fi website, is currently in private beta, but it has already inspired a certain amount of controversy due to privacy concerns. Online, users have worried about the overly generous permissions that the app requires as well as its terms of use that has disturbed some users because of their invasive potential. Instinct 的网站风格极其简约（lo-fi），目前处于内测阶段。然而，由于隐私问题，它已经引发了一定的争议。在线上，用户们对该应用要求的过度权限感到担忧，其使用条款也因潜在的侵入性而令一些用户感到不安。