From Fortnite to robots: General Intuition raises $2.3B on bet that video games can train AI agents for the real world

TechCrunch | 25.06.2026 23:00
As soon as I entered General Intuition’s R&D floor at its New York office, the company’s 31-year-old co-founder and CEO Pim de Witte directed my attention to a monitor perched on a standing desk. Someone appeared to be playing Fortnite. It wasn’t a person.