General Intuition eyes $6B valuation weeks after reaching $2.3B

What's the deal? New York-based General Intuition is raising a Series B at a $6 billion pre-money valuation, according to sources familiar with the matter. New investors Valor Equity Partners, Point72 VenturesDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, and Seven Seven SixDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → are backing the round, alongside existing backers Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst.

Why now? The fresh funds come just weeks after the startup raised $320 million at a $2.3 billion valuation. A source close to the deal said the new round is oversubscribed as it continues to field investor interest.

What's the endgame? The company builds a foundation model that trains generalized AI agents to move through space and time. Chief executive officer Pim de Witte spun out General Intuition last October from Medal, his video game clip-sharing platform, using its hundreds of millions of hours of gameplay and "action labels" — records of what buttons a player pressed and when — as an initial dataset.

General Intuition plans to use the money to improve its general model, with a focus on robotic embodiments. That means more spending on compute infrastructure — it has a partnership with CoreWeave — and hiring more talent.

Who's backing it? Valor Equity Partners is best known for backing SpaceXDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →; General Intuition would be the first AI lab the fund has invested in since. Investor Vinod Khosla recently said he believes the action labels will be key to the "emergence of intuition," or a model's ability to generalize across tasks it wasn't explicitly trained on.

The signal: A near-tripling in valuation within weeks marks General Intuition as one of the hottest startups tackling physical AI. Its bet: gameplay data can teach machines to act in the real world, from screens to robots.

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