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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

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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

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. 

Originally reported by TechCrunch. Read the full story at the original source.