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Business Insider Profiles Noah Shinn as Instinct AI Talks $10B Valuation, Invite-Only Launch

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Summary

Business Insider profiles 23-year-old Noah Shinn, whose personal-agent startup Instinct soft-launched as an invite-only site distributed through VCs and is reportedly fundraising ~$1B at a $10B valuation with Sequoia and Benchmark — up from a $2.5B mark just weeks earlier. The agent, accessible via text or phone, has topped 100,000 users and hit capacity constraints as demand outpaces compute.