Moritz Baier-Lentz on why the future of AI runs on video games

Hosted byAuren Hoffman

Moritz Baier-Lentz is one of the foremost investors in gaming, AI, and frontier technologies—including companies like OpenAI, SpaceX, Palantir, Etched, Decart, and Recursive. He founded Goldman Sachs's global gaming practice and was previously a partner, IC member, and head of gaming at Lightspeed. Moritz is part of the founding team of General Intuition, an AI research lab training agents on video game data, which has raised a $133M Seed round and a $320M Series A. He is also a senior advisor to OpenAI, McKinsey & Co., and TPG Capital.
In this episode of Summation, Moritz and Auren discuss:

• Why video games are the best data set for the next phase of AI
• The idea that humans only truly learn during play
• Why Germany's fear of risk is cultural
• Getting into Stanford with an essay about Diablo II

You can find Auren Hoffman on X at @auren and Moritz Baier-Lentz on LinkedIn or his website.