
The startup trains embodied AI and world models using Medal’s dataset of 2 billion videos per year from 10 million monthly active users.
General Intuition is a New York-based startup building a foundation model to train AI agents how to move through space and time, and it is in talks to raise $300 million at a valuation of around $2 billion. The startup spun out from Medal, a video game clip platform, eight months ago with a $134 million seed round, and now plans to use the new funds to scale compute capacity and release a new product by the end of summer or early fall. General Intuition's approach differs from competitors in the world model space, as it trains agents as its product rather than selling world models themselves, leveraging Medal's unique dataset of 2 billion videos per year from 10 million monthly active users to teach machines spatial-temporal reasoning. The funding round includes backing from Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt, alongside existing investors Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst.

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