General Intuition, the AI research lab spun out of gaming clip platform Medal, has closed a $320 million Series A at a $2.3 billion valuation. The round was led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from General Catalyst, Jeff Bezos, Eric Schmidt, Nico Rosberg, and researchers at Google DeepMind and MIT. It is a striking vote of confidence in a company that barely existed eight months ago.
The raise brings General Intuition's total disclosed funding to $454 million, following a $134 million round it raised at launch. The vast majority of the new capital will go toward scaling compute capacity, with a deal already in place with CoreWeave to pre-train the next version of the model. A slice has been earmarked for making its API more broadly available by the end of summer.
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The startup was spun out of de Witte's other company, Medal, which allows gamers to upload and share video game clips. The hundreds of millions of hours of uploaded gameplay provided the initial dataset to train General Intuition's model in spatial-temporal reasoning , understanding how to move through space and time. But the secret sauce is not the footage itself.
The key ingredient is the action labels embedded in those clips: records of exactly what buttons a player pressed and when. Most competitors, de Witte says, are trying to infer actions from video alone, which he argues is insufficient. Medal's clips are first-person and include ground-truth action labels , the specific controller inputs that produced each sequence of frames. YouTube and Twitch footage is recorded from a spectator perspective and lacks this action-label information, which is necessary for training models to understand the mapping from decision to consequence.
Medal is now used by 15M+ gamers every month, making it the largest clipping platform in the world. This year alone, Medal users will capture 2.5B+ clips. That is not just a large dataset , it is a self-replenishing one. As Medal grows, the training data compounds without General Intuition having to negotiate with publishers or streaming platforms.
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