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From Fortnite to robots: General Intuition raises $2.3B on bet that video games can train AI agents for the real world
Key takeaways
- As soon as I entered General Intuition s R&D floor at its New York office, the company s 31-year-old co-founder and CEO Pim de Witte directed my attention to a monitor perched on a standing desk.
- “Our agent has been playing for 100 hours straight,” Kent Rollins, the company’s chief product officer, said, beaming.
- Before I could get absorbed in the spectacle of an AI navigating the game’s virtual environment, I heard the electronic footsteps of a large quadrupedal robot approaching.
As soon as I entered General Intuition s R&D floor at its New York office, the company s 31-year-old co-founder and CEO Pim de Witte directed my attention to a monitor perched on a standing desk. Someone appeared to be playing Fortnite. It wasn’t a person.
“Our agent has been playing for 100 hours straight,” Kent Rollins, the company’s chief product officer, said, beaming.
Before I could get absorbed in the spectacle of an AI navigating the game’s virtual environment, I heard the electronic footsteps of a large quadrupedal robot approaching.
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