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AI Gaming Startup General Intuition Raises $320 Million
General Intuition, an AI lab that trains its models on gameplay video and player inputs, has raised $320 million in a Series A funding round, reaching a valuation of $2.3 billion. The company believes that using gaming content can accelerate the development of world and large action models for AI.
TL;DR
- General Intuition uses "hundreds of millions of hours" of gameplay to train AI models in spatial-temporal reasoning.
- The company was spun out of gaming clip-sharing platform Medal in 2025.
- It raised $134 million in initial funding and most recently $320 million in a Series A round at a $2.3 billion valuation.
- The AI model can generalize from gameplay to simulation and then to physical robots.
- Investors believe this approach could redefine AI learning and expand AI into the physical economy.
- The company's CEO believes gaming data can build world and large action models faster and cheaper than rival methods.