AI Agents

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I’ve been following General Intuition since their initial $134M raise last year — the startup that trains AI agents using video game clips from Medal’s 10 million monthly users. The pitch was interesting: use gameplay data to teach AI how to navigate the physical world. But I had the same question everyone else did: does watching someone play Fortnite actually translate to a robot walking across an office? Turns out, it does. And the reason why tells you something important about where AI training is headed. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I covered General Intuition’s initial $134M raise last month — the startup that trains AI agents using billions of video game clips from Medal’s 10 million monthly users. At the time, the pitch was interesting but unproven. Now they’ve raised another $320 million at a $2.3 billion valuation, and the story has gotten a lot more concrete. They’ve got a working robot, a jobs platform for gamers, and Vinod Khosla calling it a “generational bet.” Here’s what actually changed. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. A startup just raised $2.3 billion to teach AI agents how to navigate the real world by watching teenagers play Fortnite. That sentence sounds absurd until you understand what General Intuition is actually building: AI that understands space, time, and movement — not just text. If you’re a solo builder, the question isn’t whether this technology will matter. It’s what you should be building right now to ride the wave. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I’ve been thinking about hiring a lot lately — not because I’m hiring, but because the entire process is getting weird. Last week, a Stockholm startup called Fika Jobs raised $4 million to build a platform where AI agents conduct video interviews with job candidates. Not screening calls. Not resume filters. Actual 10-minute conversations where an AI asks questions, records responses, and builds a video profile that employers browse. If you’re a solo builder who’s ever struggled to hire — or wondered how AI agents are going to change the job market — this one’s for you. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Something shifted in AI over the past few months, and most people haven’t noticed yet. The way AI works — the fundamental unit of how you interact with it — is changing from a single question-and-answer to a continuous loop. And if you’re not paying attention, you’re going to miss the biggest upgrade to AI tools since ChatGPT launched. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I’ve been running AI agents for months, and the bill was the part that hurt the most. Not the setup, not the prompts — the raw token cost of letting a model plan, call tools, verify its own work, and loop. Agentic workflows eat tokens like a starving man at a buffet. So when Anthropic dropped Claude Sonnet 5 last week as a “cheaper way to run agents,” I had to find out if it actually changes the math. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. “A part of our NVIDIA GEAR lab now self-improves tirelessly overnight. We just read the reports in the morning.” That’s Jim Fan, director of AI at Nvidia, describing what happened when his team gave AI coding agents a lab full of robotic arms, some compute resources, and — in his words — a “generous token budget.” The agents didn’t just follow instructions. They wrote their own training programs, tested them on real robots, debugged failures, and iterated until the robots could cut zip ties and insert GPUs into motherboard sockets with 99% accuracy. All while the researchers slept. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Here’s a sentence I didn’t expect to write: the next generation of AI agents might learn to navigate the real world by watching teenagers play Fortnite. A startup called General Intuition just raised $300 million — backed by Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt — to train AI agents using a dataset of 2 billion video game clips per year. Their valuation? Over $2 billion. And the reason this matters isn’t the money. It’s the approach: instead of building AI that processes text, they’re building AI that understands space, time, and movement. If that sounds abstract, stick with me — this is going to change how AI agents work. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I’ve spent the last month testing every major AI agent designed to live inside your workspace. Salesforce’s new Slackbot, Microsoft Copilot, and Google Gemini for Workspace all promise to be your tireless digital coworker. They’ll summarize meetings, draft emails, and automate the grunt work. But for us solo builders and small teams, the real question isn’t “what can it do?” — it’s “can I actually use it without an IT department and a six-figure budget?” This is the practical Agentforce vs Microsoft Copilot breakdown you won’t find in their marketing materials. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Last month I watched a solo founder demo his “team” to me. He had five employees — none of them human. One monitored his Stripe payments and flagged anomalies. Another triaged his inbox and drafted replies. A third scheduled his social media. A fourth tracked competitor pricing. A fifth onboards new customers. He manages all five through a single dashboard. His total cost: about $200/month. His competitors are hiring humans for the same roles at $50K+ each. That gap is going to break some industries. ...