Gaming Data Powers $2.3B AI Robotics Startup

Gaming Data Powers $2.3B AI Robotics Startup
General Intuition raised $320 million at a $2.3 billion valuation, betting that video game footage can train AI agents for real-world robotics. The startup, backed by Khosla Ventures, Jeff Bezos, and Eric Schmidt, uses millions of hours of gameplay clips with embedded action labels to teach its model spatial reasoning and causality. The same AI model playing Fortnite for 100 hours straight also powers a quadrupedal robot that needed just eight minutes of real-world data to navigate an office. The company plans to scale compute capacity and make its API broadly available by end of summer.
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