Gameplay footage teaches spatial reasoning better than YouTube videos, says de Witte
Pim de Witte · World Models & General Intuition: Khosla's largest bet since LLMs & OpenAI · Dec 6, 2025 · at 14:01
Pim de Witte, CEO of General Intuition, explains why interactive video game data is superior to passive video for training AI world models and physical intelligence.
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“When you're playing video games, you're actually simulating the optical dynamics with your hand, right? And I think that, like, that's why I think why games are a better representation of switch support reasoning initially than YouTube videos, for instance.”
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