Why this CEO thinks video games make better training data than the internet
General Intuition, a startup backed by high-profile investors, is utilizing video game data to train AI models that better understand physical space and time. The company argues that gaming environments provide superior training data for achieving artificial general intelligence compared to traditional text-based models.
When it comes to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), large language models just don’t have what it takes. Models like ChatGPT and Claude are great at text, but they’re less skilled at understanding how things actually move through space and time — an essential skill for producing intelligence that generalizes. That gap, it turns out, might be filled by gaming data. That’s the bet behind General Intuition, a Bezos-backed, New York-based startup valued at $2.3 billion that just closed a $320 million round with Coatue, Eric Schmidt, and researchers at MIT and Google DeepMind joining its list of investors.
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