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General Intuition partnered with Eric Schmidt-backed Kyutai for open data research

Pim de Witte · World Models & General Intuition: Khosla's largest bet since LLMs & OpenAI · Dec 6, 2025 · at 1:01:29

Pim de Witte, CEO of General Intuition, discusses GI's research partnerships with academic and open science laboratories.

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“We just announced our partnership with Qtai in France, which is an open science lab in Paris, one of the best research labs in the world. Eric Schmidt, I believe funded in addition to some French people. They are essentially acting as the partner that's currently doing a lot of open research on the data.”

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