General Intuition thinks robotics is about to have its ChatGPT moment

Before foundation models, building specialized NLP models meant collecting and training on vast amounts of task-specific data.

Now, most teams start with a general model like GPT or Llama and fine-tune it. Pim de Witte, CEO of General Intuition, argues embodied AI is about to follow the same trajectory.

He believes the current approach of gathering enormous real-world datasets for each robot, environment, and embodiment is redundant.

Instead, the industry should focus on high-quality data that yields a foundation model capable of transferring intuition about movement and interaction across many settings.

The key insight: generalization is the product, not the specialized robot.