Perplexity AI $134M Seed Round for General Intuition to Advance AI Learning
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Oct 29, 2025 General Intuition has secured $134 million in seed funding to advance AI's spatial awareness, paving the way for revolutionary applications in automation and design. Google enhances its video model for more realistic outputs, while Claude Haiku 4.5 offers speed and affordability, benefiting developers. A major shift occurs with an Apple executive's move to Meta, impacting Siri's future. Meanwhile, Kayak.ai introduces chat-based travel planning, and Pinterest addresses user concerns about AI-generated content. Exciting times in the AI landscape!
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Video Game Clips Teach Spatial Reasoning
- General Intuition raised $133.7M to teach AI spatial reasoning using video game clips as training data.
- Their dataset of billions of clips offers edge cases that help robots learn real-world interactions safely.
Scale And Selection Make The Dataset Valuable
- Metal's platform provides ~2 billion videos per year and 10M monthly uploaders focused on game clips.
- This volume and selection bias produce rare edge-case data ideal for training AI agents and robots.
Use Integrated Video Models For Better Output
- Use improved models integrated into editing tools to produce higher-quality videos with realistic audio.
- Adopt Google's Video 3.1 in Flow to get granular edits and better image-to-video outputs.