Why this CEO thinks video games make better training data than the internet
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General Intuition, a $2.3 billion startup backed by Bezos, believes gaming data can enhance AI's understanding of physical dynamics, addressing limitations of models like ChatGPT.
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General Intuition, a $2.3 billion startup backed by Bezos, believes gaming data can enhance AI's understanding of physical dynamics, addressing limitations of models like ChatGPT. The company recently secured $320 million in funding from notable investors including Coatue and Google DeepMind.
Key Points
- General Intuition focuses on training AI with gaming data for better physical understanding.
- The startup was spun out from the gaming platform Medal TV.
- Recent funding round raised $320 million from top investors.
- CEO Pim de Witte discusses ethical considerations in AI applications.
- The company aims to bridge gaps in current large language models.
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When it comes to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), large language models just don’t have what it takes. Models like ChatGPT and Claude are great at text, but they’re less skilled at understanding how things actually move through space and time — an essential skill for producing intelligence that generalizes. That gap, it turns out, might be filled by gaming data. That’s the bet behind General Intuition, a Bezos-backed, New York-based startup valued at $2.3 billion that just closed a $320 million round with Coatue, Eric Schmidt, and researchers at MIT and Google DeepMind joining its list of investors.
On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, General Intuition CEO Pim de Witte joins Rebecca Bellan to dig into why world models trained on gaming data might be the next big leap in physical AI, how the company spun out of gaming platform Medal TV, and where the ethical red lines are when your models could end up being used for defense applications.
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