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🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. When General Intuition raised $320M at a $2.3B valuation to train AI agents on gaming data, the story was about where AI is going. Glow’s $180M raise at a $1.2B valuation is about something closer to home: what’s already running on your laptop right now — and who’s watching it. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. General Intuition just raised another $320 million at a $2.3 billion valuation — less than a year after its initial $134M round — bringing total disclosed funding to $454 million. The company trains AI agents on billions of gameplay clips from Medal’s 10 million monthly users, using embedded action labels (button presses, timing) rather than video alone. Khosla Ventures led the latest round, with participation from Jeff Bezos, Eric Schmidt, and researchers from Google DeepMind and MIT. ...

🎧 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. ...