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AI Mega-Rounds Chase Agents, Memory, and Real-World Robots — June 26, 2026


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General Intuition’s $320 million round at a $2.3 billion valuation leads a funding rush into AI systems that learn, reason and act, with Mirendil’s $200 million seed and Taktile’s $110 million Series C showing VCs still paying up for agentic infrastructure.

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  1. General Intuition's $2.3B bet that video games can train AI agents for the real world | TechCrunch — Rebecca Bellan

    # From Fortnite to robots: General Intuition raises $2.3B on bet that video games can train AI agents for the real world | TechCrunch

Author: Rebecca Bellan
Published: 2026-06-25T16:00:00+00:00
Source: TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Language: en
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From Fortnite to robots: General Intuition raises $2.3B on bet that video games can train AI agents for the real world |…

  • Former Anthropic Researchers Launch Mirendil at $1 Billion Valuation With $200M Seed Round – Unite.AI — Unite.AI

    Former Anthropic Researchers Launch Mirendil at $1 Billion Valuation With $200M Seed Round – Unite.AI

  • Former Anthropic researchers have launched Mirendil with an ambitious objective: developing artificial intelligence systems capable of accelerating AI research itself. The San Francisco-based startup has emerged from stealth with a$200 million seed funding round at a $1 billion valuation, one of…

  • Taktile raises $110M to put AI in charge of bank decisions — The Next Web

    Taktile raises $110M to put AI in charge of bank decisions

  • Taktile has raised $110m in a Series C led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives. The startup wants banks and insurers to hand their riskiest decisions to AI agents, the calls that cost millions when they go wrong.
    Banks and insurers spend billions on people to screen risky transactions, process claims and vet new customers. Get one of those…

  • Engram raises $98M to separate memory from reasoning in AI — AI Insiders — AI Insiders

    Engram raises $98M to separate memory from reasoning in AI — AI Insiders

  • Home/ Funding/ Engram raises $98M to separate memory from reaso…
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    # Engram raises $98M to separate memory from reasoning in AI
    The 13-person startup claims its learned memory layer can match frontier models while using up to 100 times fewer tokens, though no independent benchmarks exist yet.
    20 HR AGO
    $98…

  • Deep33 Closes $200M Debut Deep-Tech Fund for Physical AI | Fund Momentum — Fund Momentum

    Deep33 Closes $200M Debut Deep-Tech Fund for Physical AI | Fund Momentum

  • ## TL;DR
    Deep33, a US-headquartered, Israel-rooted deep-tech firm founded at the start of 2026 by investor Lior Prosor and entrepreneur Michael Broukhim, has closed its debut fund at $200M, roughly a third above its $150M target. The fund backs the unglamorous, capital-intensive layer beneath the AI boom: power, compute,…

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