General Intuition in talks to raise $300M at around $2B valuation

<p id="speakable-summary" class="wp-block-paragraph">General Intuition, the New York-based startup building a foundation model that trains AI agents how to move through space and time, is in talks to raise around $300 million, sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The raise comes eight months after <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/general-intuition-lands-134m-seed-to-teach-agents-spatial-reasoning-using-video-game-clips/">General Intuition spun out of Medal</a>, a platform for uploading and sharing video game clips, with a $134 million seed round. The fresh funds would bring the startup’s valuation up to just over $2 billion, sources say. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Sources tell TechCrunch General Intuition has secured funds from backers including <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/11/jeff-bezoss-prometheus-raises-12b-to-build-an-artificial-general-engineer-for-the-physical-world/">Jeff Bezos</a> and Eric Schmidt, as well as existing investors Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Pim de Witte, who co-founded Medal, founded and leads General Intuition alongside co-founders Eloi Alonso, Adam Jelley, and Vincent Micheli — researchers who bring expertise in world modeling and simulation. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The startup trains embodied AI and world models using Medal’s dataset of 2 billion videos per year from 10 million monthly active users. The startup’s pitch is that such a dataset — unique because it allows AI to learn from interactive, first-person gameplay — is the perfect base to teach machines deep spatial-temporal reasoning, allowing them to perceive, anticipate, and interact in real time in simulation.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">That dataset has <a href="https://www.theinformation.com/newsletters/ai-agenda/openai-offered-pay-500-million-startup-videogame-data?im_ref=x1K1izzfkxyZWYEUw1USoRqgUkuTox2-XRLQ1U0&amp;sharedid=techcrunch.com&amp;irpid=10078&amp;utm_term=techcrunch.com&amp;irgwc=1&amp;afsrc=1&amp;utm_source=affiliate&amp;utm_medium=cpa&amp;utm_campaign=10078-Skimbit+Ltd.">reportedly</a> attracted the attention of OpenAI, which previously attempted to acquire Medal. And sources say OpenAI hasn’t been the only big AI lab to come knocking. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The world model space that General Intuition is playing in is heating up. Startups like <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/15/runway-started-by-helping-filmmakers-now-it-wants-to-beat-google-at-ai/">Runway</a>, <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/10/decarts-new-world-model-can-simulate-hours-of-photorealistic-driving-with-some-caveats/">Decart</a>, and <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/12/fei-fei-lis-world-labs-speeds-up-the-world-model-race-with-marble-its-first-commercial-product/">World Labs </a>have all released world models recently, and Google’s Genie 3 recently began <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/googles-genie-world-model-can-now-simulate-real-streets-with-street-view/">integrating Google Maps data</a> for more real-world simulation capabilities.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">All of these companies see gaming and robotics training as near-term commercial use cases, but General Intuition takes a different approach: it builts world models to train agents, not to sell them. The agents are the product, and the startup’s unique dataset gives it a path to viability.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">General Intuition will use the funds to scale up its compute capacity so it can release a new product by the end of summer or early fall, according to a source familiar with the matter. </p>