General Intuition Raises $320M to Train AI Agents on Video Games for Real-World Use

General Intuition has raised $320 million to scale AI trained on millions of hours of gameplay data, as reported by TechCrunch. The company believes that action data from video games can help AI develop something approaching human intuition — a $2.3 billion bet on a non-traditional training path.

Rather than relying on language model reasoning, General Intuition's approach trains AI agents through repeated trial-and-error across diverse gaming environments, building decision-making capabilities that could transfer to the real world.

If successful, this approach could provide a scalable training methodology for AI agents that does not depend on text annotations, potentially reshaping how robots, autonomous vehicles, and industrial automation systems learn to operate in complex environments.