When it comes to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), large language models simply don’t have what it takes. Models like ChatGPT and Claude are great with text, but are less adept at understanding how things actually move through space and time, an essential skill for producing intelligence that generalizes. It turns out that gap could be filled with gaming data. That’s the bet behind General Intuition, a New York-based startup backed by Bezos and valued at $2.3 billion that just closed a $320 million round with Coatue, Eric Schmidt, and researchers from MIT and Google DeepMind joining its list of investors.

In this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, General Intuition CEO Pim de Witte joins Rebecca Bellan to delve into why global models trained with gaming data could be the next big leap in physical AI, how the company emerged from gaming platform Medal TV, and where the ethical red lines are when its models could end up being used for defense applications.

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