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General Intuition seeks $6B
General Intuition, a New York-based startup developing an AI model that trains agents to move through space and time, is seeking funding at a $6 billion pre-money valuation with new investors including Valor Equity Partners, Point72 Ventures, and Seven Seven Six.
“is in talks to raise funding at a $6 billion pre-money valuation”
The round comes just weeks after General Intuition raised $320 million at a $2.3 billion valuation, and CEO Pim de Witte founded the company last October after spinning it out from his clip-sharing platform for video games, Medal.
TechCrunch reports that General Intuition is still finalizing the round and that a source close to the deal said it is oversubscribed as the startup continues to field interest from investors.
Investor Vinod Khosla told TechCrunch that he believes those action labels will be a key part of the “emergence of intuition,” or the ability for a model to generalize to tasks it wasn’t explicitly trained on.
The company plans to use the funds to improve its general model with a focus on robotic embodiments, including spending more on compute infrastructure through a partnership with neolab CoreWeave and hiring more talent.
Action labels and robotics
General Intuition’s dataset is tied to video games, with TechCrunch saying it used “hundreds of millions of hours of gameplay and “action labels” — records of which buttons a player pressed and when — as an initial dataset.
In the same framing, Vinod Khosla told TechCrunch that those action labels will be a key part of the “emergence of intuition,” describing the ability for a model to truly generalize across tasks it wasn’t explicitly trained on.
Cadena 3 Argentina adds that General Intuition is closing this round and that a source close to the deal indicated it is oversubscribed, given ongoing investor interest.
The company intends to use the funds to improve its general model with a focus on robotic embodiments, which it describes as investing more in computing infrastructure and hiring more talent.
Cadena 3 Argentina also says Valor Equity Partners is known for backing SpaceX, and that TechCrunch reached out to confirm its investment in General Intuition, which would be the fund’s first AI lab investment since SpaceX.
Valuation jump and investor pull
The financing story centers on a rapid valuation jump, with TechCrunch saying the fresh funds would come just weeks after General Intuition raised $320 million at a $2.3 billion valuation.
“just weeks after General Intuition raised $320 million at a $2.3 billion valuation”
Cadena 3 Argentina similarly reports that General Intuition is seeking funding at a $6.0 billion valuation and that the company is in talks to raise funds at a pre-money valuation of $6.0 billion.
Both outlets tie the investment case to General Intuition’s plan to push physical AI forward, with TechCrunch saying the company intends to use the funds to focus on improving its general model with a focus on robotic embodiments.
Cadena 3 Argentina says the company plans to use the funds to improve its general model with a focus on robotic embodiments and that this involves investing more in computing infrastructure through its partnership with CoreWeave and hiring more talent.
The reports also frame the deal as part of a broader investor push into robotics and physical AI, with TechCrunch noting that Valor Equity Partners is known for backing SpaceX and that it would be the fund’s first AI lab investment since SpaceX if confirmed.