About The Company

General Intuition is the frontier lab for acting in space and time. We build large action models and world models that can perceive, predict, and act across virtual and physical environments. General Intuition builds on the strength of Medal, the world's largest and fastest-growing platform for gaming clips, where millions of gamers capture, share, and discover new games every year. We've raised over $670M from Khosla, GC, Valor, and Point72 since October 2025, and recently closed our latest round at a $6.2B valuation.

The Role

As Head of Safety, you own compliance end-to-end across content safety, user data, and platform transparency - from the moderation queue and the classifiers behind it to regulatory calls, product roadmap, and the systems that make the function smaller every quarter.

This is not a pure moderation role and not a policy-memo role. We are a lean company and intend to stay one: every hour of manual review, every vendor contract, and every classifier you tune is a cost, and you're expected to know what each one buys us. We need someone technical enough to build and test the systems that get us there, not just specify them - someone who instinctively reaches for the numbers before reaching for headcount.

What We're Looking For

You own the safety function and shrink its manual footprint - improving the accuracy, automation, and cost-efficiency of content moderation until the same or better outcomes take materially less human review each quarter. You define the metrics behind it (queue volume, review time, appeal and reversal rates, cost per action, escalation latency) and build the dashboards that surface them without you in the loop.
You build and evaluate detection systems hands-on - test sets, precision and recall, thresholds tuned against the real cost of false positives versus false negatives - and run the evals that tell you whether a change helped or just felt better. You've shipped changes to a detection or review system and can say how you measured them.
You run cost-benefit on every action - before we invest in a policy, a tool, a vendor, or a review process, you can say what risk it reduces, what it costs to run, and what the cheaper alternative is. You reason in expected value: likelihood of harm, severity, cost to mitigate, cost to ignore. You can defend a decision to not do something, and you apply the same discipline to your own time, including knowing when to stop optimizing.
You stay ahead of regulation and keep the compliance picture live - GDPR, the EU Digital Services Act, UK online safety and investigatory powers legislation, cyberbullying and minor-protection rules, and emerging regimes - translated into plain-language guidance the whole company can act on, and into an honest, current map of where the product meets its obligations, where the gaps are, what they cost to close, and what happens if we don't.
You lead product work - driving the roadmap toward holistic compliance with a heavy bias to automation, so safety doesn't become a permanent cost center. You scope it with engineering as a peer.
You build the team and set the position - developing existing teammates to own more of day-to-day operations, hiring where the math justifies it, defining Medal's internal principles and external voice on user safety in step with our brand and culture, and bringing research on real risk exposure so leadership sizes safety spend deliberately rather than reactively.
You bring experience leading trust & safety, content policy, or product compliance at a consumer platform, ideally one with user-generated content at scale, plus a track record of automating manual review away through classifiers, tooling, vendor systems, or policy design that kills edge cases. You're comfortable in SQL and write enough Python to pull your own data, build an eval harness, and script a workflow - you don't file a ticket to find out how many items hit a queue last week. You know what classifiers and LLM-based review can and can't do, how to evaluate a vendor's claims, and where the failure modes are, without needing to train models yourself.
You're direct - you look for the flaws in a plan, ask the skeptical question, and say the uncomfortable thing early rather than late, both as a manager and when reporting up, so hard decisions get made with good information.

This is a broad charter with room to grow: you'll be the company's center of gravity on digital trust and compliance, with direct access to leadership, engineering resources to build with, and the latitude to shape how Medal thinks about user safety as the regulatory landscape keeps shifting.

About the company

General Intuition builds AI agents that can understand and move in 3D spaces by teaching them spatiotemporal reasoning. They train these agents with clips from video games to help models learn space, motion, and how objects interact, enabling navigation, movement prediction, and decision making in 3D environments. Unlike many AI labs that focus on static images, they center on spatiotemporal intelligence and use gaming data as a primary training resource to push 3D understanding. Their goal is to accelerate the development of capable AI that can operate in real-world and simulated robotics, autonomous systems, and VR/AR contexts.

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$673.7M

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

2025

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

September 29, 2026 funding gave General Intuition $220 million at a $6.2 billion valuation.
General Intuition opened an early-access waitlist and started partner tests in robotics.
Medal says uploads are tracking 3 billion clips yearly, expanding training supply.

What critics are saying

General Intuition still discloses no revenue, so valuation depends entirely on future model sales.
Medal users can opt out of clip use, weakening the dataset moat immediately.
If Medal growth stalls, General Intuition loses its core training pipeline.

What makes General Intuition & Medal unique

Medal supplies billions of action-labeled gameplay clips, a dataset rivals cannot easily replicate.
General Intuition spun out of Medal in October 2025, preserving proprietary user-action telemetry.
It builds action models and world models, not games, targeting robotics and simulation customers.

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InvestGame

Oct 4th, 2026

General Intuition raises $220m at $6.2B as game clips become training data for world-model AI.

General Intuition raises $220m at $6.2B as game clips become training data for world-model AI. LATER STAGE VC US-based frontier AI lab General Intuition has raised $220m at a $6.2B valuation, backed by Valor Equity Partners, Atreides, Seven Seven Six, Point72, Khosla Ventures, and General Catalyst. The valuation nearly tripled from $2.3B at its June announcement (Series A, $320m round). With the $133.7m Seed of Oct'25, General Intuition has raised $673.7m in under a year. Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst have backed all three rounds, while Valor, Atreides, Point72, and Seven Seven Six joined in this one. The asset behind the price is gameplay data. General Intuition and game-clip platform Medal sit under a common Dutch holding company and share a founder, General Intuition CEO Pim de Witte. The lab trains its models on Medal's clips under an arrangement between the two companies. Each Medal clip pairs what a player saw with the actions they took, and those action labels let a model learn how to act, not only what a scene looks like. The company's case is that people play games and operate robots through the same inputs and outputs. Its latest round, announced on Sep 29, funds robotic embodiments, compute, and hiring in New York and Europe. Medal's uploads have accelerated through 2026, and de Witte says leading robotics and world models train on less than 1% of the action data General Intuition can draw on. Medal raised $13m at a $333m post-money valuation in Jul'24, and OpenAI reportedly offered ~$500m for Medal in late 2024. The clip library behind that bid now underpins a $6.2B valuation for a lab that trains its models on it. General Intuition ranks fifth among world-model developers by capital raised in 2026, but its $6.2B post-money valuation is the highest round valuation in the group. The only higher price in the segment is not a round: AMD's ~$8.2B all-stock acquisition of World Labs, whose Series C in Feb'26 was reportedly priced at ~$5.4B. Capital is concentrating in a few labs that raise repeatedly within months: VAST and HiDream.ai each closed four rounds this year, and Shengshu and GigaAI three each. China-based developers hold four of the ten places, backed by Alibaba (NYSE: BABA) and state-linked funds. Valuations here do not track capital raised: AMI Labs raised nearly twice as much as General Intuition this year, at a $3.5B pre-money valuation versus General Intuition's $6.0B pre-money. Data from interactive entertainment, from player inputs to whole game worlds, is becoming training material for frontier AI, and the buyers in this market keep finding their targets among companies built on games. AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) is acquiring World Labs, whose models generate explorable 3D worlds, for ~$8.2B in stock, announced on Sep 28, 2026. Bloomberg reported on Aug 13, 2026, that Anthropic was in talks to buy Decart for ~$6.0B. Decart's first model, Oasis, generated a playable version of the sandbox game Minecraft. InvestGame covered the rumor in its W33 issue. Anthropic, which was reported to want Decart's chip-efficiency software, walked away after due diligence in Sep'26. Google, part of Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL), took a minority stake in Fenris Creations, the renamed CCP Games, when its management bought the studio back from Pearl Abyss (KOSDAQ: 263750) in May'26, and Google DeepMind now tests its models on an offline version of the space MMO EVE Online for research on long-horizon planning and memory. Roblox acquired the team and technology of real-time video world-model lab Morpheus AI in Jun'26, to combine a video world model with the engine. The round prices a data position, 2B clips uploaded to Medal since Jun'22. General Intuition sells its models through a commercial API to a small number of partners, with a partner waitlist opened on Sep 29. Vinod Khosla, whose firm led the Series A, said in Jun'26 that a sale of General Intuition at this point "would be a data acquisition, which is sort of uninteresting." InvestGame Ltd will keep tracking world-model deals.

Value Add VC

Oct 3rd, 2026

General Intuition valuation 2026: $6.2B after a $220M round, nearly triple in three months.

General Intuition valuation 2026: $6.2B after a $220M round, nearly triple in three months. General Intuition's price tag nearly tripled from $2.3B to $6.2B in three months - here's the full round history, who's funding a company that trains AI on video-game footage, and what the bet actually is. Founder, Value Add Holdings LLC · 3x founder (BrandYourself, Launch.it, SPOT) · 65+ investments · Based in Boca Raton, FL 65+Investments 3xFounder $200M+Funds Tracked Quick Answer General Intuition is valued at $6.2 billion after closing a $220 million round on September 29, 2026, led by Valor Equity Partners and Atreides Management, per SiliconANGLE. That's nearly triple the $2.3 billion valuation it set three months earlier with a $320 million Series A led by Khosla Ventures, and total disclosed funding now exceeds $670 million. General Intuition is worth $6.2 billion after closing a $220 million round on September 29, 2026 - nearly triple the $2.3 billion valuation it set just three months earlier, according to SiliconANGLE. General Intuition is a one-year-old company that trains AI on video-game footage, and it has now raised money at three distinct valuations inside twelve months. The pace matters more than the sticker price: a company barely past its first birthday going from an undisclosed seed valuation to $6.2 billion is a sign of how fast capital is chasing the bet that gameplay data can teach AI to act in the physical world, not just describe it. General Intuition valuation: the full round history. General Intuition is valued at $6.2 billion as of its September 29, 2026 round - a figure built on three rounds of financing in less than a year, with each one roughly tripling or more what came before it. | Date | Round | Amount | Valuation | Lead(s) | Source | | Sep 29, 2026 | Follow-on | $220M | $6.2B | Valor Equity Partners, Atreides Management | SiliconANGLE | | Aug 24, 2026 | Round in talks (same round) | Undisclosed at the time | ~$6B pre-money (reported) | Valor Equity Partners, Point72, Seven Seven Six | TechCrunch | | Jun 25, 2026 | Series A | $320M | $2.3B | Khosla Ventures | TechCrunch | | Oct 16, 2025 | Seed | $134M | Not disclosed | Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst | TechCrunch | The August 24 TechCrunch report and the September 29 SiliconANGLE report describe the same financing process: TechCrunch covered the round while it was still being marketed at a roughly $6B pre-money valuation, and SiliconANGLE confirmed the close at a $6.2B post-money figure five weeks later. Series A participants beyond Khosla Ventures included Jeff Bezos, Eric Schmidt, Nico Rosberg, and General Catalyst, per TechCrunch. up from $2.3B in Jun 2026 Current valuation closed Sep 29, 2026 Latest round across 3 rounds since Oct 2025 Total disclosed funding in under 12 months Valuation multiple vs seed Figures from SiliconANGLE's September 29, 2026 report and TechCrunch's June 2026 and October 2025 funding coverage. What is General Intuition's valuation actually pricing? General Intuition's valuation is pricing a bet that the company's core asset - hundreds of millions of hours of action-labeled gameplay video, mostly sourced from its origins as the video-sharing platform Medal - is a training substrate competitors can't easily replicate. The company doesn't sell world models the way Google DeepMind or World Labs do; instead it builds action models that, given an environment, an embodiment, and a goal, decide what to do and act on it, which is why investors are framing the deal around robotics and embodied AI rather than generative video. Who's funding General Intuition, and why now. Founded by Pim de Witte, Eloi Alonso, Adam Jelley, and Vincent Micheli, General Intuition spun out of Medal B.V. in October 2025 and raised $134 million at launch, led by Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst with Raine also participating. Eight months later, the company closed a $320 million Series A at $2.3 billion, adding Jeff Bezos, Eric Schmidt, and Formula 1 driver-turned-investor Nico Rosberg to its cap table alongside Khosla and General Catalyst. The September round brought in a different lead: Valor Equity Partners and Atreides Management headlined the $220 million raise, with Seven Seven Six (Alexis Ohanian's firm), Point72, and returning investors Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst rounding it out. TechCrunch's August reporting described the round as oversubscribed while it was still being marketed - a detail that matches how quickly it closed at almost exactly the pre-money figure that had been floated a month earlier. How General Intuition stacks up against other embodied-ai bets. Several other companies are raising money on the same premise - that AI needs to learn to act in space, not just generate text or images. General Intuition sits roughly in the middle of that field of embodied-AI and world-model startups, which have all raised nine- or ten-figure rounds in the past year. What the headline misses. Tripling a valuation in three months looks like unambiguous validation, but two caveats matter. First, General Intuition has disclosed no revenue figures at any point in its history - unlike several peers in the comparison above, which have published ARR numbers alongside their valuations. A $6.2 billion price with zero disclosed revenue is a bet entirely on the data moat and the founding team's technical thesis, not on a demonstrated business. Second, the round itself tells an unusual story: TechCrunch reported it was being marketed at roughly $6 billion in August, and it closed barely higher, at $6.2 billion, five weeks later - a far smaller jump than the move from $2.3 billion to that $6 billion target just two months before. That could mean the market found a more durable price for this category, or it could mean a round that looked oversubscribed on paper still took over a month to actually close at the number first floated. General Intuition has gone from an undisclosed seed valuation to $6.2 billion in under a year, on zero disclosed revenue. The gameplay-data thesis is now a multibillion-dollar bet - the next test is whether it converts into a product customers actually pay for. Track private AI company valuations on the AI Valuations Dashboard at Value Add VC. Originally published in the Trace Cohen newsletter. Latest from the pulse. Get VC data most people never see - free to subscribe Trace's notes on venture, AI and startups, a few times a week. Join 5,000+ subscribers. No spam. Frequently asked questions. What is General Intuition's valuation in 2026? How much has General Intuition raised in total? What does General Intuition actually build? Who founded General Intuition and when? How does General Intuition's valuation compare to other embodied-AI and world-model startups? Related tools & dashboards. New in AI & technology. Explore 45+ free VC tools, dashboards, and recommended startup software.

GamesBeat

Sep 29th, 2026

General Intuition raises $220M at $6.2B valuation to train AI models on game data

General Intuition has raised $220 million at a $6.2 billion valuation to develop foundation models trained on game data. The company has now raised over $650 million in total, following a $320 million round in June. CEO Pim de Witte said the models are trained on billions of action-labelled videos from Medal, a gaming clip service that is on track for 3 billion uploaded videos yearly. The company claims this provides significantly more training data than leading robotics models currently use. The funding round was led by Valor Equity Partners, with participation from Atreides, 776, Point72, Khosla Ventures, and General Catalyst. General Intuition plans to expand its team in New York and Europe whilst scaling up its AI model development.

Tech.eu

Sep 15th, 2026

Boxd raises $2M to build cloud infrastructure for AI coding agents

Dutch startup Boxd has raised $2 million in pre-seed funding led by BlueYard Capital to develop cloud infrastructure for developers and AI coding agents. The round included participation from OVNI Capital, Antler, S20 and Script Capital, alongside business angels. Founded by Michiel Voortman, Laurentiu Ciobanu and Hidde Kehrer, Boxd provides persistent virtual machines that allow developers and AI agents to execute code, run tests and manage software workflows. The platform offers snapshotting and live-forking capabilities, enabling users to create copies of running machines in under 100 milliseconds. The company targets the growing demands of AI coding agents, which require dedicated, long-running computing environments and can operate in parallel. Boxd will use the funding to expand its team and develop its custom virtualisation engine.

PYMNTS

Aug 24th, 2026

General Intuition aims to raise capital at $6 billion valuation to power AI robotics.

General Intuition aims to raise capital at $6 billion valuation to power AI robotics. By PYMNTS | August 24, 2026 General Intuition, which is developing a foundation artificial intelligence model with potential applications in robotics, is finalizing a funding round that would value the company at $6 billion, TechCrunch reported Monday (Aug. 24), citing unnamed sources. The company's AI model was developed using hundreds of millions of hours of gameplay from General Intuition CEO Pim de Witte's video game clip-sharing platform, Medal, and trains generalized AI agents to move through time and space, according to the report. General Intuition plans to use the new capital to invest in additional compute infrastructure and talent to improve its general model, with a focus on robotic embodiments, per the report. Please add us to your preferred sources list so our news, data and interviews show up in your feed. Thanks! General Intuition did not immediately reply to PYMNTS' request for comment. General Intuition announced an earlier funding round two months ago, saying in a June 25 post on X that it raised $320 million in a Series A round at a $2.3 billion valuation. The company said the round was led by Khosla Ventures, former Google Executive Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. General Intuition announced in an Oct. 25, 2025, post on X that it raised $133.7 million in a seed round. In the June 25 post, the company said: "General Intuition is the frontier lab for acting in space and time. We build large action foundation models trained on billions of ground truth action-labeled gameplay clips from [17 million] monthly active users on Medal, and push the frontier of world models to generate infinite training environments." Several announcements around world models have been made in recent months. It was reported June 17 that Amazon invested in and launched a partnership with Odyssey, a startup that builds AI systems designed to simulate the physical world. Odyssey's world models can create 3D environments. The round raised $310 milion and valued Odyssey at $1.45 billion. Chinese tech giant Alibaba announced June 15 that it unveiled its first suite of AI models for robots. The suite includes Qwen-RobotNav, which helps robots understand how to navigate physical spaces; Qwen-RobotWorld, a video "world model" that allows a robot to predict how a physical scenario will unfold; and Qwen-RobotManip, which enables cross-embodiment training at scale.

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