In detail
- Planned raise of about $300M; valuation around $2B, per sources
- Founders: Pim de Witte (spun out of Medal), Eloi Alonso, Adam Jelley, Vincent Micheli
- Training data comes from Medal: ~2 billion videos per year from 10M monthly active users
- Backers involved or interested include Jeff Bezos, Eric Schmidt, Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst
Why it matters
The company focuses on world models and embodied agents trained on first‑person gameplay — funding would expand compute and speed product release, which matters to businesses exploring simulation, robotics training, or agent workflows.
For you Assess whether your automation or robotics plans could leverage improved spatial‑temporal world models and watch for partnership or pilot opportunities with world‑model providers.