
General Intuition, a startup specializing in AI agent training, is negotiating a $300 million funding round that would value the company at over $2 billion. The company leverages a unique dataset from Medal, its parent company, to train AI in spatial-temporal reasoning using video game clips. This approach has drawn interest from major AI labs, including OpenAI. The funding will help General Intuition scale its computing resources and prepare for a new product launch later this year.
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