Updated
Updated · TechCrunch · Jun 18
General Intuition Seeks $300 Million at Over $2 Billion Valuation
Updated
Updated · TechCrunch · Jun 18

General Intuition Seeks $300 Million at Over $2 Billion Valuation

1 articles · Updated · TechCrunch · Jun 18

Summary

  • $300 million in new funding talks would value General Intuition at just over $2 billion, eight months after the New York startup spun out of Medal with a $134 million seed round.
  • The company plans to use the cash to expand compute capacity and launch a new product by late summer or early fall, according to a source familiar with the matter.
  • General Intuition trains embodied AI agents on Medal’s flow of 2 billion videos a year from 10 million monthly active users, arguing first-person gameplay data is well suited to spatial-temporal reasoning.
  • Jeff Bezos, Eric Schmidt, Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst are among backers, while the dataset has also drawn interest from OpenAI and other major AI labs.
  • The raise lands as competition in world models intensifies, with Runway, Decart, World Labs and Google all pushing simulation-focused AI for gaming and robotics.

Insights

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