Practical News: AI & Business News General Intuition Raises $134M to Teach AI Spatial Reasoning
Oct 29, 2025
General Intuition's impressive $134M funding aims to teach AI spatial reasoning, potentially transforming its cognitive abilities. Google enhances video editing with its new model and integrated tools. Claude Haiku 4.5 achieves faster performance, making AI access more affordable. Meanwhile, Kayak.ai's chat-based travel booking showcases innovative uses of AI. Pinterest responds to user feedback by introducing controls to filter AI-generated content, while the music industry collaborates with Spotify to create AI-driven artist-centric products.
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Video Games Teach Spatial Reasoning
- General Intuition raised $133.7M to train AI on video-game clips for spatial reasoning.
- Game clips provide billions of edge-case first-person views that teach AI world interaction and consequences.
Google Enhances Video Generation
- Google released Video 3.1 and integrated it into the Flow editor inside Gemini.
- The update focuses on improved audio, granular editing, and more realistic outputs from prompts.
Smaller Models Become More Practical
- Anthropic's Claude Haiku 4.5 is much faster and cheaper while matching earlier capabilities.
- Faster, lower-cost small models will enable broader free-tier integrations in products.