Previously, George was Chief Technology Officer at Numenta,[1] a company he co-founded with Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky while completing his PhD at Stanford University.

The round was led by Good Ventures; Founders Fund, Open Field Capital and Zarco Investment Group also participated.

The system is powered by a balanced approach that takes sensory data, mathematics, and biological plausibility into consideration.

However, Luis von Ahn, a pioneer of early CAPTCHA and founder of reCAPTCHA, expressed skepticism, stating: "It's hard for me to be impressed since I see these every few months."

[8] Vicarious has indicated that its AI was not specifically designed to complete CAPTCHAs and its success at the task is a product of its advanced vision system.