General Intuition, a Bezos-backed startup valued at $2.3 billion, believes that gaming data could be the key to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI). The company argues that large language models like ChatGPT and Claude excel at text but struggle with understanding movement through space and time, a gap that could be filled by training on video game data. The startup just closed a $320 million funding round with investors including Coatue, Eric Schmidt, and researchers from MIT and Google DeepMind. On TechCrunch's Equity podcast, CEO Pim de Witte discussed why world models trained on gaming data represent the next big leap in physical AI, how the company spun out of gaming platform Medal TV, and the ethical considerations surrounding potential defense applications of their technology.