Investor in AI-enabled Future of Finance, Commerce and Work @ Coalition @Prosusgroup/@Naspers; Fueled by gym🏋️♂️ & caffeine ☕️
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Sebastiaan Vaessen retweeted
Europe’s founders need a European standard to compete globally from day one.
Europe’s leaders committed to delivering one. But their teams are negotiating away the very things that make it one.
There is still time to change course if Europe's Heads of State step in now.
Sebastiaan Vaessen retweeted
ok this could be EPIC❗️
@PimDeWitte just challenged @elonmusk to a straight 1v1 💀
both are training AI that only sees the screen and outputs actions
(btw this mf raised $320M after a $134M seed… then another $220M at $6.2B. all in like a year 😵💫)
> Elon: Digital Optimus is halfway through Diablo, solid at CS, League in training
> Pim: drops CS footage of his models winning rounds + teabagging... tags him “Let’s run it”
same rules. each picks 5 games.
Pim even said Elon can throw in a racing game if he wants.
no engine access. pure pixels in.
this is gonna show real quick who actually has the better stack.
Sebastiaan Vaessen retweeted
General Intuition has raised another $220M at a $6.2B valuation as we start making our models available. These are an entirely new class of foundation models, trained on billions of action-labeled videos, capable of acting in realtime in never seen before environments.
1/6
Sebastiaan Vaessen retweeted
🇮🇳 Indian Diaspora Index is live! With @Prosus_Ventures
Founders who grew up in India have founded 205 unicorns overseas. $560B of that value is credited to those founders.
91% are based in the US, including @zscaler @rubrikInc @nutanix @AsteraLabs @perplexity_ai
New Indian Diaspora Index, created with @Prosusgroup
dealroom.co/prosus/indian-di…
Sebastiaan Vaessen retweeted
Founders who grew up in India have founded 205 unicorns overseas. $560B of that value is credited to those founders.
91% are based in the US, including @zscaler @rubrikInc @nutanix @AsteraLabs @perplexity_ai
New Indian Diaspora Index, created with @Prosusgroup
dealroom.co/prosus/indian-di…
Sebastiaan Vaessen retweeted
The WSJ stopped by to learn more about how our models work.
Good write-up to understand broadly what a large action model is, how its different from world models, and why they are promising approaches in robotics.
It's becoming increasingly clear that ground-truth action data, like the kind found in games, is a key ingredient to scaling robotics pre-training.
Link in comments. Check out the policy waving at @pallipau.
Sebastiaan Vaessen retweeted
Announcing our $320M Series A at a $2.3B valuation, led by @khoslaventures, with @generalcatalyst, @ericschmidt and @JeffBezos.
General Intuition is the frontier lab for acting in space and time.
We build large action foundation models trained on billions of ground truth action-labeled gameplay clips from 17M monthly active users on Medal, and push the frontier of world models to generate infinite training environments.
Sebastiaan Vaessen retweeted
🚨 Out now: The Global Tech Ecosystem Index 2026
325 tech ecosystems. 77 countries. The most detailed benchmarking of where global tech is scaling, densifying, and growing fastest.
Three lenses, three rankings, transparent data.
Sebastiaan Vaessen retweeted
US investors prefer Europemaxxing to Europebashing ft.trib.al/HoSQjG5 | opinion
Sebastiaan Vaessen retweeted
"Europe is the invisible AI giant" — Sebastiaan Vaessen from Prosus explains why the continent is punching way above its weight in AI
@dealroomco youtube.com/watch?v=LOVlg5vI…
Sebastiaan Vaessen retweeted
‘EU Inc’ is a missed opportunity for start-ups ft.trib.al/5QfgKBL | opinion
Sebastiaan Vaessen retweeted
Is Europe an AI underdog or an "Invisible Giant"? 🇪🇺
Next week, @dealroomco and @Prosusgroup release the 2026 State of AI in Europe - The Invisible Giant report.
We’re hitting the road to share the data and answer the big questions:
⚡️ Is the window still open for Europe to compete?
⚡️ Do we have the urgency and speed to match our talent?
⚡️ What’s next for world models and vertical AI?
💰 How much capital is needed to win globally?
Join us in person to get the fresh data from Dealroom first - RSVP and Limited seats!
📍 Amsterdam | 16 March @ Prosus HQ
📍 London | 24 March @ The Jellicoe
📍 Brussels | 31 March @ Venue TBD
Sebastiaan Vaessen retweeted
We’re currently prioritizing 3 types of hires at @gen_intuition
1) top researchers in world modeling / policy learning (ideally both)
2) engineers with deep exp in complex 3d sim environments+ML cloud infra. Backend + engine.
3) large scale data ops (eng/teleop/etc)
Dm open!
Sebastiaan Vaessen retweeted
🚀 AI & Policy: Scaling AI in Europe: Join Us in Amsterdam!
Europe is at a pivotal moment in the global AI race, and on 11 Dec we’re bringing the people shaping that future together under one roof to answer:
👉 How can Europe capture the benefits of AI and scale with confidence, speed, and global competitiveness?
Plus: networking, debates, and space to connect.
In partnership with @Prosus_Ventures, the @EU_Commission, Innovation Radar Bridge and StepUp Startups initiative.
Register: luma.com/631cs8zm
Sebastiaan Vaessen retweeted
I'm currently reading a comparison of health systems globally. There are about 4 sentences that really sum it up.
1/4: “The United States is the only developed country that lets insurance companies profit from basic health coverage”
Sebastiaan Vaessen retweeted
Americans/MAGA’s are obsessed with bragging about GDP per capita.
And they like claiming their poorest state is more rich than any country in Europe.
It’s spinning data. Here’s the truth 👇
Sebastiaan Vaessen retweeted
“AC this, wash dryer that, US woohoo, EU boohoo” - Why are we eating this brand-warfare from the outside about us up?
Europe has the strongest precision manufacturing in the world, we have leading teams in AI, CV, robotics. Europe is a leader in Automation and Frontier Tech!
Not a single NVIDIA chip could be produced without European machines. Not a single American cloud, robotics, or deep-tech firm would operate without European manufacturing or suppliers.
But we are too humble. Brainwashed to never celebrate Europe. By outsiders and our local politicians.
Time for a change.
Europe is the birthplace of industrialization.
The home of frontier tech.
Time, we act like it.
Welcome to the real Europe! 🔥🇪🇺