Your gaming data could be the secret to AGI, according to this Bezos-backed startup
About this episode
The episode discusses how gaming data could be pivotal in achieving artificial general intelligence, featuring insights from General Intuition's CEO Pim de Witte.
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. On this episode of TechCrunch's Equity podcast, General Intuition CEO Pim de Witte joins Rebecca Bellan to dig into why world models trained on gaming data might be the next big leap in physical AI, how the company spun out of gaming platform Medal TV, and where the ethical red lines are when your models could end up being used for defense applications. Listen to the full episode to hear more about: How eight minutes of real-world data was…
People in this episode
Host: Rebecca Bellan
Guest: Pim de Witte
Topics covered
- artificial general intelligence
- gaming data
- physical AI
- investment
- ethical implications
- job displacement
Keywords
- AGI
- gaming data
- General Intuition
- AI job displacement
- ethical red lines
- investment
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: General Intuition, Bezos, Coatue, MIT, Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Medal TV
Places: New York
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