reinforcement-learning

EquiLibre raised a Series A at a reported $500M+ valuation, led by Creandum's largest-ever check, to scale trading agents built from the same game-theoretic RL that beat humans at poker. It is the cleanest transfer bet in the environments thesis: markets are already the adversarial game.

The static-text era of AI training is closing and a new input is being funded in its place: simulated environments. General Intuition raised $320M at $2.3B on gameplay, Patronus $50M on Digital World Models, and Prime Intellect, Mechanize and Applied Compute are building the rest. Here is the map.