General Intuition raises $320M to train robots on Fortnite

general intuition raised $320m at a $2.3b valuation to prove that video games are the best training ground for physical robots. the startup uses labeled gameplay clips from its sister company, medal, to teach agents about physics and causality without expensive real-world data. their model successfully controlled a quadrupedal robot after just eight minutes of fine-tuning, generalizing from virtual environments to physical navigation. this approach challenges traditional assumptions that robotics requires vast, curated real-world datasets.