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  • Valor and Point72 Back General Intuition at B Valuation for Physical AI and Robotics

    New York-based foundation model startup General Intuition is in discussions to secure new funding at a $6 billion pre-money valuation, according to sources familiar with the matter. The financing round includes new backing from Valor Equity Partners, Point72 Ventures, and Seven Seven Six, alongside continued participation from existing investors Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst. The potential valuation represents a steep increase from the company's previous financing round, which raised $32

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  • Mental World Modeling: Why Autonomous AI Agents Fail Without Simulating Human Beliefs

    Mental World Modeling: Why Autonomous AI Agents Fail Without Simulating Human Beliefs Current foundation world models, from video simulators like Sora and Genie to spatial representations like JEPA and Marble, focus almost exclusively on the physical mechanics of an environment. They track geometry, object positions, motion trajectories, and visual continuity. However, when autonomous agents interact with humans in collaborative, medical, or domestic settings, physical state tracking alone cons

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  • Veeda AI Raises 0M+ Seed Backed by Khosla and Radical for Physical AI World Models

    Veeda AI, a Toronto-based foundation model startup established by former Nvidia AI research executive Sanja Fidler, has raised more than $90 million in seed funding. The round was backed by Khosla Ventures and Radical Ventures, marking one of the largest seed financings recorded in Canada. Corporate filings reveal that the company, incorporated in June 2026 as Veeda Innovation, issued 60.6 million seed shares priced at $1 each in late July. Concurrent with the share issuance, Veeda added Radica

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  • Chinese AI labs dominate text-to-video: 9 of top 10 models are Chinese

    Outside of Alphabet's Google, nine of the world's top ten text-to-video models are now Chinese, according to the Artificial Analysis leaderboard. The ranking, based on blind human evaluation of generated clips, places Google's Gemini Omni Flash at number one. Every slot from two through ten belongs to a Chinese lab. The Chinese contingent includes: MiniMax — H3 ByteDance — Seedance 2.0 Alibaba — Wan (two builds), HappyHorse (two builds, ~15B parameters, open weight) Kuaishou — Kling (two bu

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