General Intuition in Talks for $6B Pre-Money Round — SkimNews
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- General Intuition is negotiating a funding round at a $6 billion pre-money valuation, with new investors Valor Equity Partners, Point72 Ventures, and Seven Seven Six joining existing backers Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst in what sources describe as an oversubscribed deal
- The new round comes just weeks after the $320 million raise General Intuition closed at a $2.3 billion valuation, marking a sharp markup in price
- CEO Pim de Witte spun out General Intuition last October from Medal, his video game clip-sharing platform, using hundreds of millions of hours of gameplay and "action labels" — records of which buttons players pressed and when — as the foundation model's initial dataset
- General Intuition plans to direct the new capital toward improving its general model for robotic embodiments, scaling compute through its CoreWeave partnership, and hiring additional talent
- Valor Equity Partners, best known for backing SpaceX, would be making its first AI lab investment since SpaceX through this deal, per the source
Why it matters: General Intuition's valuation has jumped from $2.3 billion to $6 billion in a matter of weeks, reflecting how aggressively investors are chasing startups training AI on game-derived action data for robotics. Valor Equity Partners — historically a SpaceX-focused fund — making its first AI lab investment since SpaceX signals that physical-world AI is now drawing capital from investors who previously avoided the category.
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