en.Wedoany.com Reported - General Intuition announced the completion of a new $320 million funding round, with a post-money valuation of $2.3 billion, confirming TechCrunch's earlier report. The round was led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from General Catalyst, Jeff Bezos, Eric Schmidt, Nico Rosberg, and researchers from Google DeepMind and MIT. Combined with the $134 million raised at the company's founding in October last year, total disclosed funding reaches $454 million.
The startup was spun off from the game clip platform Medal, where hundreds of millions of hours of game videos uploaded by Medal users, along with their precise keystroke labels, form the key data for training the foundational model. Co-founder and CEO Pim de Witte stated that most competitors only infer actions from videos, while the action labels embedded in clips provide a significant advantage in training models for spatiotemporal reasoning.
Chief Product Officer Kent Rollins introduced that one agent has been running a game continuously for 100 hours. At the New York R&D floor, de Witte demonstrated a quadruped robot powered by the same model. Data analyst Josh Duplantis noted that it takes only 8 minutes of real-world data to fine-tune the model for the robot, and this data was collected on the street, not in the office where the robot is currently navigating, showcasing the model's generalization capability. The company's developed world model can generate simulated environments frame by frame, rather than being rendered by traditional game engines, and the model has learned to judge object physics through gaming experiences.
General Intuition plans to sell the agent model itself and offer services via API. The company has reached an agreement with CoreWeave to expand computing capacity and aims to open the API more broadly by late summer. de Witte stated that the company will not build an autonomous vehicle company but will enable other companies to build applications on top of it "10 times easier." The company has a few customers in gaming, simulation, and robotics, and hopes to form a data flywheel through customer deployments, prioritizing customers who can provide diverse embodied real-world data to continuously improve the model.
de Witte clearly defined the boundaries of technology use, stating that agents will not be developed to harm humans but can be used for search and rescue missions. Chief of Staff Brianna Martin revealed that the company's birth partly stemmed from Medal's rejection of a major lab's acquisition offer. de Witte has three years of experience in the humanitarian field, including work with Doctors Without Borders. The company has launched a job marketplace platform called Nerve, allowing gamers to use existing devices to shift from data annotation to tasks like robot remote operation. Khosla Ventures' Vinod Khosla stated that human action data is a key part of the emergence of AI intuition capabilities, calling this investment a "generational bet," and noted that proprietary data makes the company a foundation for general agents and world models.
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