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General Intuition has raised another $220M at a $6.2B valuation as we start making our models available. These are an entirely new class of foundation models, trained on billions of action-labeled videos, capable of acting in realtime in never seen before environments. Leading foundation models in robotics and world models are trained on less than 1% of the action data we are capable of training on thanks to Medal, which is currently the fastest growing company in games. Medal is on track to 3 billion uploaded videos per year. On any given day, we see more accidents in sim than across the entire USA. And at any moment, more people play with steering wheels than Waymo has cars on the road. This allows us to create General Agents and World Models, capable of handling hard to predict events. We've raised the round from Valor Equity Partners, Atreides, 776, Point72, Khosla Ventures, and General Catalyst. We'll be scaling up the team in New York and Europe. If you're a top researcher or engineer, reach out. Why does this work? Humans play video games and (tele)-operate robots using the same inputs and outputs, namely vision & controller actions. We train directly on the largest dataset of these, similarly to how Tesla trained FSD, but across more actions and environments. What emerges is a model capable of handling autonomy across a broad range of environments and possible actions, including in the real world. We've opened up the waitlist for partners who want to receive early access to the models (first comment has link).