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General Intuition in $6B Funding Talks

General Intuition, a New York AI startup building a foundation model to train generalized AI agents for movement in space and time, is in talks to raise funding at a $6 billion pre-money valuation from new investors including Valor Equity Partners, Point72 Ventures, and Seven Seven Six. Existing backers Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst are also participating. The company plans to use proceeds to advance its general model toward robotic embodiments, increasing spend on compute (with a partnership with CoreWeave) and hiring. CEO Pim de Witte spun the company out from the gameplay clip-sharing platform Medal in October 2025. The round is reportedly oversubscribed and still being finalized.

Antonio Gracias Advocates for Startups Built to Thrive in Chaos

At the Upfront Summit in Los Angeles, Antonio Gracias, founder of Valor Equity Partners, introduced and explained the term "proentropic" to describe startups built to thrive amid disorder and disruption — including technological change, climate volatility and geopolitical shifts. Gracias said he began thinking about the concept in 2013 and emphasized that proentropic companies bake probabilistic thinking, edge-case planning and resilience into strategy and people. He cited SpaceX and Tesla as examples and discussed Valor’s conviction-driven investing approach, the moral courage needed to build through macro uncertainty, and his optimism about AI and low-code/no-code tools enabling broader entrepreneurship over the next five to ten years.

xAI Raises $20B Series E to Accelerate AI Buildout

xAI has closed a $20 billion Series E round, surpassing an initial $15 billion target. The capital will fund infrastructure (including its 'Colossus' supercomputer), R&D, and new product development. The syndicate includes longtime Musk backers Valor Equity and Fidelity, hardware partners NVIDIA and Cisco, plus sovereign wealth from Abu Dhabi and Qatar. The round reportedly implies a valuation of about $230 billion, follows $6.6 billion raised in 2024, and comes after xAI’s all-stock acquisition of social platform X. The deal highlights growing financial concentration in large AI labs and raises questions about the value and availability of creative content for model training.