Pim de Witte sees AI development in three stages: bits to bits, bits to atoms, and atoms to atoms. Most labs are still solving the first. He founded General Intuition to solve the last one, training… | General Catalyst

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Pim de Witte sees AI development in three stages: bits to bits, bits to atoms, and atoms to atoms. Most labs are still solving the first. He founded General Intuition to solve the last one, training AI on spatial and temporal dynamics, with video games as the richest environment for teaching a model how the world moves and changes. He turned down several acquisition offers to pursue it. Watch Max's full conversation with Pim in the comments.

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Like you kind of have 3 stages, right? Bits to bits, bits to atoms and then Adams to Adams. And I think solving spiritual world dynamics is actually just how you solve all the way. And then because text is largely commoditized, right? It's there's great open source text models. You can kind of assume, in my opinion, that you can import a lot of the capabilities that were done in the text domain. And if you can win the frontier on the on the Adams Adams raised and you can actually supplement on a lot of the other areas by winning there because that's where the bottleneck is, right? So you win that bottleneck the same way that Anthropic won the code bottleneck, and then you work backwards from there.

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All this sounds very techie, exciting, and full of potential. However, as a PT owner operating 5 clinics, my practical question is: will any of this truly help replace or meaningfully support front office staff? Our front office teams are on the frontline every single day managing patient flow, insurance verification, scheduling changes, authorizations, denials, documentation requests, and the constant invisible barrage created by the insurance middleman. Much of the stress in healthcare today is not clinical — it is administrative friction. Most clinic owners are not asking for futuristic “wish list” solutions. We are simply looking for enough operational and financial breathing room so we can focus more energy on patient care instead of constantly ducking the next burden created by the system.