It\u2019s also what has led to General Intuition\u2019s raising a whopping $133.7 million in seed funding, led by Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst with participation from Raine.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The startup intends to use the funds to grow its team of researchers and engineers focused on training a general agent that can interact with the world around it, aiming for initial applications in gaming, and search and rescue drones.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n De Witte says the founding team has already made strides: General Intuition\u2019s model can understand environments it wasn\u2019t trained on and correctly predict actions within them. It\u2019s able to do this purely through visual input; agents only see what a human player would see, and they move through space by following controller inputs. This approach, the company says, can transfer naturally to physical systems like robotic arms, drones, and autonomous vehicles, which are often manipulated by humans using video game controllers.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Techcrunch event<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSan Francisco General Intuition\u2019s next milestone is two-fold: generating new simulated worlds for training other agents, and autonomously navigating entirely unfamiliar physical environments.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n That technical approach is shaping how the company plans to commercialize its technology, and sets it apart from competitors building world models.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n While General Intuition is also building world models on which to train its agents, such\u00a0 models aren\u2019t the product. Unlike other world model makers like DeepMind and World Labs, which are selling their world models Genie<\/a> and Marble<\/a> for training agents and content creation, General Intuition is focusing on other use cases to avoid copyright issues.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cOur goal is not to produce models that compete with game developers,\u201d de Witte said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Instead, the startup\u2019s gaming applications center around creating bots and non-player characters that can surpass traditional \u201cdeterministic bots,\u201d or preprogrammed characters that produce the same output every time.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201c[The bots] can scale to any level of difficulty,\u201d Moritz Baier-Lentz, a founding member of General Intuition and partner at Lightspeed Ventures, told TechCrunch. \u201cIt\u2019s not compelling to create a god bot that beats everyone, but if you can scale gradually and fill in liquidity for any player situation so that their win rate is always around 50%, that will maximize their engagement and retention.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n De Witte also has a background in humanitarian work, which informs the startup\u2019s focus on powering search and rescue drones, that sometimes have to navigate unfamiliar environments and extract information without GPS.\u00a0<\/p>\n Ultimately, de Witte and Baier-Lentz see General Intuition\u2019s core functionality \u2013 spatial-temporal reasoning \u2014 as a crucial piece in the race toward artificial general intelligence (AGI). While major AI labs focus on building ever more powerful large language models, General Intuition believes true AGI requires something LLMs fundamentally lack.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cAs humans, we create text to describe what\u2019s going on in our world, but in doing so, you lose a lot of information,\u201d de Witte said. \u201cYou lose general intuition around spatial-temporal reasoning.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Medal, a platform for uploading and sharing video game clips, has spun out a new frontier AI research…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[8135,18,31218,76359,19,17,76360,76361,82,28605],"class_list":{"0":"post-125962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-ai-agents","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-general-catalyst","11":"tag-general-intuition","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-medal","15":"tag-spatial-temporal-reasoning","16":"tag-technology","17":"tag-world-models"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/general_intuition_announcement_hero.png\")
General Intuition\u2019s founding team.,Image Credits:<\/strong>General Intuition<\/p>\n
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