TL;DRGeneral Intuition, the AI lab that spun out of gaming clip platform Medal after rejecting a reported $500 million offer from OpenAI, is raising approximately $300 million at a valuation of just over $2 billion. Backers reportedly include Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt.
General Intuition, a New York-based AI lab that trains agents to reason about space and time using billions of video game clips, is in talks to raise approximately $300 million at a valuation of just over $2 billion, according to TechCrunch. The round would come just eight months after the company launched with a $134 million seed, one of the largest on record.
Backers reportedly include Jeff Bezos, whose own physical AI venture Prometheus recently raised $12 billion, and Eric Schmidt, alongside existing investors Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst.
The Medal origin story
General Intuition exists because of a deal that fell apart. Late in 2024, OpenAI reportedly offered $500 million to acquire Medal, a platform where gamers upload and share short video clips of gameplay, because it wanted the data to train its models, according to The Information.
