General Intuition raises $320M Series A at $2.3B valuation
General Intuition has raised $320 million in a Series A at a $2.3 billion valuation, the New York startup announced on 25 June 2026.
The round was led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from General Catalyst, Jeff Bezos , Eric Schmidt (via Hillspire), Nico Rosberg , and researchers at Google DeepMind and MIT. It brings the company's total disclosed funding to $454 million, after the $134 million round it raised at launch in October 2025.
The company trains large action foundation models on billions of ground-truth, action-labeled gameplay clips, drawn from 17 million monthly active users on Medal, its sister gaming platform. The same model can play a Fortnite-like game for 100 hours straight or steer a quadrupedal robot. It took just eight minutes of real-world data to fine-tune the model for a robot navigating its office on a single camera.
The vast majority of the new money will go toward scaling compute capacity through a deal with CoreWeave, funding pre-training of the next version of the model. A slice has been earmarked for making its API more broadly available by the end of summer 2026.
The startup was spun out of Medal, where hundreds of millions of hours of uploaded gameplay — complete with records of exactly which buttons a player pressed and when — formed its initial dataset for training in spatial-temporal reasoning.
General Intuition sells the agentic model itself, not the world model, which it uses internally as a training "gym." That bet hinges on demand from a handful of early customers in gaming, simulation, and robotics, and on whether simulation-to-real-world transfer can hold at scale — an open question across the field.
CEO Pim de Witte, who is Dutch and leads a largely European team, has drawn ethical lines: no agents will be used to harm humans, though he welcomes search-and-rescue uses. He and his co-founders aren't interested in being acquired, having already turned down an offer from a major lab.
Investors are betting that gameplay data, not language, holds the key to the next AI breakthrough. Vinod Khosla , whose firm led the round, drew the parallel directly: "If you look at LLMs, when reasoning emerged, it was a quantum leap. In world models, I think the quantum leap is the emergence of intuition in the AI — a human intuition-like capability. The human action data and reaction data you have in games is the key part to the emergence of intuition."
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