A company valued at $2.3 billion just convinced investors that the fastest path to useful AI runs through raiding millions of hours of Fortnite and Call of Duty footage. The pitch frames this as training "intuition," which sounds impressive until you realize the product is still just pattern-matching on digital pixels.
The real promise is that watching virtual agents jump, shoot, and loot will somehow transfer to physical environments where gravity, consequences, and other humans exist. General Intuition is betting that sheer volume of gameplay will paper over the gap between simulated rewards and actual stakes.
This is classic PR compression: call it "developing intuition" instead of admitting the model still has no body, no persistent memory outside the current session, and no reason to care if its outputs break real things. Investors are apparently fine with that framing as long as the demo clips look fluid.
