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Pim de Witte
Turned a gaming-clip platform into training data for world models.
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- 2025
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- World Models
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- General Intuition
The story in brief
De Witte co-founded Medal, a platform for sharing gameplay clips, then spun out General Intuition in 2025.
The lab raised $220 million at a $6.2 billion valuation in 2026.
Read the full story · 3 min readGeneral Intuition Raises $220M at $6.2B to Train AI on Gameplay Data→Lessons for founders
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Proprietary data is a moat
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Spin-outs can move fast
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