Why this CEO thinks video games make better training data than the internet

General Intuition, a Bezos-backed startup valued at $2.3 billion, believes that video game data is superior to internet data for training AI models to achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI). The company argues that large language models like ChatGPT struggle to understand how things move through space and time, a gap that gaming data can fill. The startup recently closed a $320 million funding round with investors including Coatue, Eric Schmidt, and researchers from MIT and Google DeepMind. On the TechCrunch Equity podcast, CEO Pim de Witte discussed how the company spun out of gaming platform Medal TV and why world models trained on gaming data could be the next leap in physical AI. He also addressed the ethical considerations surrounding the potential use of their models for defense applications.