General Intuition in talks to raise at $6 billion pre-money valuation, 2.5× prior round

The New York-based startup General Intuition is in advanced talks for a new funding round at a $6 billion pre-money valuation, according to people close to the deal. New investors expected to join include Valor Equity Partners, Point72 Ventures and Seven Seven Six. Existing backers Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst are also participating. The move comes weeks after the company raised $320 million at a $2.3 billion valuation.

General Intuition was founded in October by CEO Pim de Witte as a spin-off from the Medal gaming-clip sharing platform he owned. Its core asset is hundreds of millions of hours of gameplay annotated with “action labels” that record exactly which buttons were pressed and when. Vinod Khosla, partner at Khosla Ventures, said the labels “may be the key to ‘the emergence of intuition’, the ability of a model to generalize to tasks it was not explicitly trained on.”

Sources say the round is in closing and is oversubscribed, with demand exceeding supply. The capital will be used to improve the company’s general model with a focus on robotic embodiments, adding more compute infrastructure (the company has a partnership with CoreWeave) and hiring additional staff. Public benchmarks for the model have not yet been released.

For Valor Equity Partners, best known for its early investment in SpaceX, the deal would be its first investment in an AI lab since that bet. The story is still developing.