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General Intuition raising $300M for AI trained on gaming data

This article was published on June 18, 2026 General Intuition is raising $300 million to train AI agents on the video game data OpenAI tried to buy TL;DRGeneral Intuition, the AI lab that spun out of gaming clip platform Medal after rejecting a reported $500 million offer from OpenAI, is raising approximately $300 million at a valuation of just over $2 billion. Backers reportedly include Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt. General Intuition, the AI lab that spun out of gaming clip platform Medal after rejecting a reported $500 million offer from OpenAI, is raising approximately $300 million at a valuation of just over $2 billion. Backers reportedly include Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt. General Intuition, a New York-based AI lab that trains agents to reason about space and time using billions of video game clips, is in talks to raise approximately $300 million at a valuation of just over $2 billion, according to TechCrunch. The round would come just eight months after the company launched with a $134 million seed, one of the largest on record. Backers reportedly include Jeff Bezos, whose own physical AI venture Prometheus recently raised $12 billion, and Eric Schmidt, alongside existing inv

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