General Intuition, the New York-based AI startup building foundation models that teach agents to reason through space and time, is in talks to raise approximately $300 million, according to sources familiar with the matter. The round would value the company at just over $2 billion and follows a $134 million seed raised eight months ago when the startup spun out of video game clip platform Medal.
Backers in the new round include Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt, alongside existing investors Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst. The company is led by Pim de Witte and co-founders Eloi Alonso, Adam Jelley, and Vincent Micheli, researchers specialising in world modelling and simulation.
General Intuition trains its models on Medal’s dataset of two billion videos annually from ten million monthly active users, using first-person gameplay to develop spatial-temporal reasoning in AI agents. Unlike competitors such as Runway, Decart, and World Labs, the startup builds world models specifically to train agents rather than to sell the models themselves. The funds will be used to scale compute capacity ahead of a new product launch planned for late summer or early autumn.
