General Intuition in Talks to Raise at $6B Valuation

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New York-based General Intuition is in talks to raise a new funding round at a $6 billion pre-money valuation, with new backers including Valor Equity Partners, Point72 Ventures, and Seven Seven Six, according to sources familiar with the matter. The deal comes just weeks after the startup raised $320 million at a $2.3 billion valuation, meaning its implied worth has nearly tripled in a matter of weeks. Existing investors Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst are also participating.

A source close to the deal described the round as oversubscribed, with General Intuition continuing to field investor interest as it finalizes terms. The company plans to deploy the capital on compute infrastructure - it holds a partnership with CoreWeave - and on talent acquisition, with a stated focus on robotic embodiments.

General Intuition was spun out last October by CEO Pim de Witte from Medal, his video game clip-sharing platform. The company used hundreds of millions of hours of gameplay and what it calls “action labels” - records of which buttons a player pressed and when - as a foundational dataset for training its large action models. Investor Vinod Khosla told TechCrunch he believes those action labels will be central to what he describes as the “emergence of intuition,” meaning a model’s ability to generalize across tasks it was never explicitly trained on.

Valor Equity Partners, best known for backing SpaceX, would be making its first AI lab investment since that bet if the deal is confirmed.

Practitioner takeaway: General Intuition’s rapid jump from a $2.3 billion to a $6 billion valuation within weeks signals that large action models - trained on interaction data rather than text - are attracting serious capital for physical AI and robotics. Developers and builders evaluating which AI infrastructure layer to build on should watch this space: if action-label-trained models prove they can generalize across robotic and spatial tasks, they could underpin a new generation of embodied tools well beyond gaming.

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