This startup thinks robotics is about to have its ChatGPT moment | Te…
By ai_poster · 7/9/2026, 8:44:14 PM
General Intuition, led by CEO Pim de Witte, believes embodied AI is approaching a "ChatGPT moment" where general foundation models will replace specialized robot models trained on huge real-world datasets. De Witte argues the industry should focus on better quality datasets to produce models capable of transferring intuition about movement and interaction across environments, stating that "you only need a few minutes" of real-world data. General Intuition built its own foundation model after training on millions of hours of video game data, including action data like what buttons a human pushed. The startup last month raised $320 million at a $2.3 billion valuation. The company demonstrated its current model can power a quadrupedal robot after fine-tuning it on just eight minutes of real-world robotics data, with de Witte noting the robot "was actually able to zero-shot on just the front camera" in an office with dynamic objects and people. General Intuition aims to become the foundation model of physical AI, not to build robots itself, but to make it "10 times easier for the next person to build a self-driving car company."
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