This startup thinks robotics is about to have its ChatGPT moment

General Intuition, a startup backed by Vinod Khosla, has raised $320 million at a $2.3 billion valuation on the thesis that video game data can train foundation models for physical AI. CEO Pim de Witte argues that just as GPT-style models replaced task-specific NLP models, a general-purpose foundation model for embodied AI will eliminate the need for massive real-world robotics datasets. The company demonstrated its model powering a quadrupedal robot after only eight minutes of real-world fine-tuning. General Intuition's goal is not to build robots itself, but to become the foundational layer that other robotics companies build upon.