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 something like Fortnite. It wasn't a person. Relying on that camera, its singular eye, the giant buglike bot walked up to me, circled around me, and continued into the office. It occasionally clipped the legs of chairs or bumped into an errant trash bin, much like a toddler who hasn't yet learned how her body relates to the world around it. Duplantis said it took just eight minutes of real-world robotics data to fine-tune an AI model for the quadruped. What's more, that data was collected on the street, not inside the office where the bot was currently navigating itself. An agentic model that can generalize from gameplay to simulation to embodiment is General Intuition's raison d'etre. And that model's ability to figure out its place in the world has secured...
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