AI Breakdown General Intuition Gets $134M to Develop Smarter, Spatially-Aware AI
Oct 30, 2025
General Intuition just landed a whopping $134 million in funding to elevate AI's spatial reasoning skills, closing the gap between human and machine perception. Google's new video model promises sharper audio enhancements, while Anthropic's Claude Haiku 4.5 boasts remarkable speed and cost efficiency. In travel news, Kayak is rolling out a natural-language AI mode for smarter trip planning. Plus, Pinterest introduces controls to filter out unwanted AI-generated content, reflecting growing user concerns.
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Spinout From A Massive Game-Clip Platform
- General Intuition spun out from Metal, a game-clip platform with 10M monthly users and 2B videos per year.
- The dataset rivaled Twitch/YouTube scale and reportedly attracted acquisition interest from OpenAI.
Video Games Teach Spatial Reasoning
- General Intuition raised $133.7M to teach AI spatial reasoning using billions of video game clips.
- Video game uploads provide rich first-person edge cases that accelerate learning about physical interactions.
Google Upgrades Video Generation
- Google released Video 3.1 and integrated it into the Flow editor inside Gemini to improve video creation.
- The update focuses on better audio, granular editing, and more realistic outputs from prompts.