--- title: Valor, Point72 back General Intuition at $6B valuation... description: General Intuition, a New York startup building a foundation model that trains AI agents to navigate space and time using video game footage, is in talks to... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/valor-point72-back-general-intuition-at-6b-valuation-as-ai-startup-pushes-into-robotics-idwyq8wnt twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Valor, Point72 back General Intuition at $6B valuation as AI startup pushes into robotics | daily.dev og:description: General Intuition, a New York startup building a foundation model that trains AI agents to navigate space and time using video game footage, is in talks to... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/valor-point72-back-general-intuition-at-6b-valuation-as-ai-startup-pushes-into-robotics-idwyq8wnt og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/IDWYQ8Wnt.png og:image:alt: Valor, Point72 back General Intuition at $6B valuation as AI startup pushes into robotics og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Valor, Point72 back General Intuition at $6B valuation as AI startup pushes into robotics **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary General Intuition, a New York startup building a foundation model that trains AI agents to navigate space and time using video game footage, is in talks to raise funding at a $6 billion pre-money valuation. New investors reportedly include Valor Equity Partners, Point72 Ventures, and Seven Seven Six, alongside existing backers Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst. This comes just weeks after a $320 million raise at a $2.3 billion valuation. The company, spun out from video clip-sharing platform Medal, plans to use the funds to push into robotic embodiments, expanding compute infrastructure through its CoreWeave partnership and hiring more talent. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What valuation is General Intuition raising money at in its latest funding round? General Intuition is in talks to raise funding at a $6 billion pre-money valuation, up from a $2.3 billion valuation just weeks earlier when it raised $320 million. New investors reportedly include Valor Equity Partners, Point72 Ventures, and Seven Seven Six, while existing backers Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst are also participating. _Track fast-moving AI funding rounds like this one on daily.dev as valuations shift week to week._ ### What kind of AI model is General Intuition building and what data does it use? General Intuition builds a foundation model that trains generalized AI agents to move through space and time, using spatial reasoning derived from video game gameplay. It draws on hundreds of millions of hours of gameplay footage and 'action labels' recording which buttons a player pressed and when, sourced from CEO Pim de Witte's video game clip-sharing platform Medal, which he spun the company out of. _Developers curious about training data sources for embodied AI can follow this space on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [General Intuition in talks to raise $300M at around $2B valuation](https://daily.dev/posts/general-intuition-in-talks-to-raise-300m-at-around-2b-valuation-zxeb84vsp) · TechCrunch · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [General Intuition raising $300M for AI trained on gaming data](https://daily.dev/posts/general-intuition-raising-300m-for-ai-trained-on-gaming-data-ggs3nvome) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [General Intuition’s $2.3B bet that video games can train AI agents for the real world](https://daily.dev/posts/general-intuition-s-2-3b-bet-that-video-games-can-train-ai-agents-for-the-real-world-lby2hikz0) · TechCrunch · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - 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