Curious Ai

The Curious AI Company was a Helsinki, Finland-based artificial intelligence research company founded in 2015 by Harri Valpola (previously founder of ZenRobotics) along with Antti Rasmus, Mathias Berglund, Tapani Raiko, and Timo Haanpaa. The company pursued artificial general intelligence, real-world computer vision for robots, and interactive, autonomous, and semi-supervised machine learning, and is best known for foundational research on Ladder Networks for semi-supervised deep learning. It raised roughly 4.7M USD from investors including DCVC, Lifeline Ventures, and Invus, and was acquired by Apple in January 2021. The company no longer operates as an independent entity and publishes no public developer platform, API, documentation, or SDKs. This record is retained as a DCVC portfolio identity profile; there is no active API surface to enrich.

Curious Ai is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, and Robotics.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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aid: curious-ai
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name: Curious Ai
description: The Curious AI Company was a Helsinki, Finland-based artificial intelligence research company founded in 2015
  by Harri Valpola (previously founder of ZenRobotics) along with Antti Rasmus, Mathias Berglund, Tapani Raiko, and Timo Haanpaa.
  The company pursued artificial general intelligence, real-world computer vision for robots, and interactive, autonomous,
  and semi-supervised machine learning, and is best known for foundational research on Ladder Networks for semi-supervised
  deep learning. It raised roughly 4.7M USD from investors including DCVC, Lifeline Ventures, and Invus, and was acquired
  by Apple in January 2021. The company no longer operates as an independent entity and publishes no public developer platform,
  API, documentation, or SDKs. This record is retained as a DCVC portfolio identity profile; there is no active API surface
  to enrich.
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x-source: vc-portfolio
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- invus
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: acquired-no-api-surface
x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by: Apple
x-acquired-date: '2021-01-15'
x-headquarters: Helsinki, Finland
x-founded: '2015'
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specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Computer Vision
- Robotics
- Deep Learning
- Semi-Supervised Learning
- Artificial General Intelligence
- Acquired
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
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  email: info@apis.io
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  date: '2026-07-19'
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  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence