AI startup General Intuition has raised $134 million in a seed funding round.
The company is developing AI agents with advanced spatial reasoning skills.
This funding will help them build AI that can better understand and interact with the physical world.
Spatial reasoning is the ability to understand objects and their relationships in three-dimensional space.
For an AI, this means knowing how things move, fit together, or block one another. This skill is a fundamental requirement for capable robots, self-driving cars, and other autonomous systems. General Intuition uses video game clips to train its AI models. These complex virtual environments provide vast amounts of data on physics and object interaction. The AI learns by observing how characters and objects behave within these dynamic game worlds. The company's goal is to create more reliable and capable AI agents. By mastering virtual spaces, these agents can more effectively navigate and perform tasks in the real world. This approach could significantly accelerate progress in robotics and automation.