ALT Medal, a platform for uploading and sharing video game clips, has spun out a new frontier AI research lab that’s using its trove of gaming videos to train and build foundation models and AI agents that can understand how objects and entities move through space and time a concept known as spatial-temporal reasoning. Called General Intuition, the startup is betting that Medal’s dataset which consists of 2 billion videos per year from 10 million monthly active users across tens of thousands of games surpasses alternatives like Twitch or YouTube for training agents. “When you play video games, you essentially transfer your perception, usually through a first-person view of the camera, to different environments,” Pim de Witte, CEO of Medal and General Intuition, told TechCrunch. He noted that gamers who upload clips tend to post very negative or positive examples, which serve as really useful edge cases for training. “You get this selection bias towards precisely the kind of data...

ALT Applied Intuition is unveiling new products that, according to one executive, will enable swarms of autonomous military ground vehicles, vessels and drones. Why it matters: The Pentagon is bullish on smart machinery — but a lack of physical and digital infrastructure hamstrings the grand vision. The latest: Applied's announcement Tuesday includes its Axion and Acuity product lines. The former is a "developer cloud" made "specifically for the development of military-grade autonomy," Jason Brown, the company's general manager for defense, told Axios. The latter, he said, "is the output of that." Think of one as the brain and the other as the textbook from which it learns. Together, they hope to account for the "hyper-dynamic realities of warfighting," said Brown, "and of the operating environments that our warfighters find themselves."...