General Intuition, a New York-based startup developing a foundation model for training generalized AI agents to navigate space and time, is in discussions to secure funding at a $6 billion pre-money valuation. The potential investors include Valor Equity Partners, Point72 Ventures, and Seven Seven Six, with participation from existing backers such as Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst. This funding round follows a $320 million raise in April, which valued the company at $2.3 billion.

The startup, founded by CEO Pim de Witte, emerged from his video game clip-sharing platform Medal, leveraging its extensive gameplay data and “action labels” (records of player button presses) as an initial dataset. Investor Vinod Khosla has expressed belief in the significance of these action labels for fostering the “emergence of intuition” in AI models, enabling them to generalize across tasks beyond their explicit training. General Intuition intends to utilize the new funds to enhance its general model with a focus on robotic applications, investing in compute infrastructure (through a partnership with neolab CoreWeave) and expanding its talent pool. Source

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