Valor, Point72 back General Intuition at $6B valuation as AI startup pushes into robotics

Valor 和 Point72 以 60 亿美元估值投资 General Intuition，该 AI 初创公司正进军机器人领域

New York-based General Intuition, the startup building a foundation model that trains generalized AI agents to move through space and time, is in talks to raise funding at a $6 billion pre-money valuation from new investors including Valor Equity Partners, Point72 Ventures, and Seven Seven Six, according to sources familiar with the matter. Existing investors including Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst are also participating in the round. 据知情人士透露，总部位于纽约的 General Intuition 正在洽谈以 60 亿美元的投前估值进行融资。该公司致力于构建一种基础模型，旨在训练通用 AI 智能体在时空中移动。此次融资的新投资者包括 Valor Equity Partners、Point72 Ventures 和 Seven Seven Six，现有投资者 Khosla Ventures 和 General Catalyst 也参与了本轮融资。

The fresh funds would come just weeks after General Intuition raised $320 million at a $2.3 billion valuation. The news confirms earlier reporting on the deal for what is becoming one of the hottest startups tackling physical AI. 这笔新资金距离 General Intuition 以 23 亿美元估值筹集 3.2 亿美元仅过去了几周。这一消息证实了此前的报道，该公司正成为物理 AI 领域最热门的初创公司之一。

CEO Pim de Witte spun out General Intuition last October from his video game clip-sharing platform Medal, using its hundreds of millions of hours of gameplay and “action labels” — records of which buttons a player pressed and when — as an initial dataset. 首席执行官 Pim de Witte 于去年 10 月将 General Intuition 从其视频游戏剪辑分享平台 Medal 中拆分出来。他利用该平台数亿小时的游戏时长和“动作标签”（记录玩家在何时按下了哪些按钮的数据）作为初始数据集。

Investor Vinod Khosla recently told TechCrunch that he believes those action labels will be a key part of the “emergence of intuition,” or the ability for a model to truly generalize across tasks that it wasn’t explicitly trained on. 投资者 Vinod Khosla 最近告诉 TechCrunch，他认为这些动作标签将是“直觉涌现”的关键部分，即模型能够真正跨越其未经过明确训练的任务进行泛化的能力。

General Intuition is still finalizing the round, and a source close to the deal said that it is oversubscribed as the startup continues to field interest from investors. The company intends to use the funds to focus to improve its general model with a focus on robotic embodiments. That means spending more on compute infrastructure (the company has a partnership with neolab CoreWeave) and hiring more talent. General Intuition 仍在敲定本轮融资，一位接近交易的消息人士称，由于该初创公司持续受到投资者的追捧，本轮融资已超额认购。公司计划利用这笔资金改进其通用模型，重点关注机器人载体。这意味着将投入更多资金用于计算基础设施（该公司与新实验室 CoreWeave 有合作关系）并招聘更多人才。

Valor Equity Partners is known for backing SpaceX. TechCrunch has reached out to confirm its investment in General Intuition, which would be the first AI lab the fund has invested in since SpaceX. Valor Equity Partners 以投资 SpaceX 而闻名。TechCrunch 已联系该公司以确认其对 General Intuition 的投资，这将是该基金自 SpaceX 以来投资的首家 AI 实验室。

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