SILICON VALLEY RACES TO BUILD "ENVIRONMENTS" FOR TRAINING AI AGENTS

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Major AI labs are ramping up spending on reinforcement learning environments, with Anthropic reportedly considering over $1 billion next year, shifting from static datasets to interactive simulations where agents practice tasks like web browsing. Startups are crowding into the space to compete with established human-generated data vendors like Scale AI for what could become the next critical infrastructure for AI development.