AGI Development AI News & Updates
General Intuition, a well-funded AI startup backed by Jeff Bezos and industry experts, is training physical AI world models using gaming data rather than standard internet text. The company argues that video games provid...
Amazon Considers $50 Billion Investment in OpenAI Amid Major Funding Round
OpenAI is pursuing a $100 billion funding round that could value the company at $830 billion, with Amazon reportedly negotiating to contribute at least $50 billion. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is leading discussions with OpenA...
Google DeepMind Opens Project Genie AI World Generator to Ultra Subscribers
Google DeepMind has released Project Genie, an AI tool powered by Genie 3 world model, Nano Banana Pro image generator, and Gemini, allowing users to create interactive game worlds from text prompts or images. The experi...
General Intuition Raises $134M to Build AGI-Focused Spatial Reasoning Agents from Gaming Data
General Intuition, a startup spun out from Medal, has raised $133.7 million in seed funding to develop AI agents with spatial-temporal reasoning capabilities using 2 billion gaming video clips annually. The company is tr...
Tech Leaders Warn Against AGI Manhattan Project in Policy Paper
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, and CAIS Director Dan Hendrycks published a policy paper arguing against a "Manhattan Project for AGI" approach by the US government. The authors warn that an a...