AGI Training Startup, Backed by Bezos, Secures $320M in Funding
A new player in the artificial intelligence arena is making waves and attracting significant investment. General Intuition, a New York-based AI startup born from gaming clip platform Medal, has successfully closed a $320 million Series A funding round, valuing the company at a staggering $2.3 billion. This brings its total disclosed funding to $454 million.
The investment round was spearheaded by Khosla Ventures and includes prominent investors such as Jeff Bezos (via Bezos Expeditions), former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, General Catalyst, and individual researchers from MIT and Google DeepMind. Interestingly, the company reportedly declined a $500 million acquisition offer from OpenAI for its data assets, opting for independence instead.
The startup’s innovative approach is to train AI to understand how objects move through space and time, rather than scaling language models on internet text. This is the belief of CEO Pim de Witte, who argues that achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) requires this unique approach. General Intuition trains what it refers to as “world models” on approximately 2 billion gameplay video clips per year uploaded to Medal, paired with the precise controller inputs that generated each on-screen moment. In a compelling demonstration, the model was fine-tuned on just eight minutes of real-world robotics data and successfully controlled a quadrupedal robot zero-shot using only a front camera.
The bulk of the new funding will be used to scale compute capacity through a partnership with CoreWeave. A commercial API launch is planned for late summer 2026.
Source: TechCrunch — General Intuition’s $2.3B bet that video games can train AI agents for the real world