simulation

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.

Three days after we argued the agent-eval sector sells a number nobody trusts, Patronus AI raised $50M and reframed itself around Digital World Models. It is not defending the benchmark. It is replacing it with simulation, and the move concedes the original critique.