Generalist AI
Foundation model · US
Frontier lab building robot foundation models (GEN-0/GEN-1/GEN-1.5) for general physical intelligence; $400M at ~$2B (Jun 2026), NVIDIA-backed.
Generalist trains embodied foundation models that give robots end-to-end visuomotor control and dexterous manipulation — the 'model layer' other robot OEMs license. Its GEN-0 (Nov 2025) was trained on 270,000+ hours of real-world manipulation data and showed a phase transition past 7B parameters; GEN-1 (Apr 2026) reached 99% reliability and ~3x faster execution; GEN-1.5 (Aug 2026) learns a new task from ~12 seconds of demonstration. It scales a physical-data engine (thousands of hours of robot experience added weekly) rather than relying on simulation. Backed by Radical Ventures, NVIDIA, Bezos Expeditions and Fei-Fei Li.
Research mapping
Physical AI / Sim-to-Real, Digital Twins & Validation (L9) / Foundation model
Evidence boundary
Original analysis and independent corroboration remain under development. Commercial scale and durable technical advantage remain under review.
What makes it defensible
Physical-AGI model layer trained on the largest real-world robot-manipulation dataset (270k+ hours, scaling weekly).
Position in the stack: Robot foundation-model lab — the model layer manipulation/humanoid OEMs license
Who buys it
Founding team
Pete Florence — Co-founder & CEO — Former Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind working on robotic manipulation and vision-language-action models.
Andy Zeng — Co-founder & Chief Scientist — Robotics research scientist, previously at Google DeepMind; co-author on RT-1/RT-2-era manipulation work.
Andrew Barry — Co-founder & CTO — Robotics engineer and prior founder; co-founder of Generalist AI (2024).
SourceFinancing detail
- Last round
- $400M Series B (Jun 2026)
Investors: Radical Ventures, 8VC, NVIDIA (NVentures), Bezos Expeditions, Fei-Fei Li, Union Square Ventures, Naval Ravikant
Mapped funds and investors
Direct relationships supported by published evidence.
Reported holdings as-of
No sourced relationships mapped yet.
Disclosed investment history
| Fund / investor | Last sourced | Relationship | Evidence |
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| NVentures | participant | Source | |
| Radical Ventures | lead | Source |
Showing up to four relationships in each group. ETF weights describe the fund’s portfolio, not ownership of this company. Private investment history does not establish current ownership.
Evidence & media
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Nvidia, Fei-Fei Li back Generalist’s $400m round to scale AI robotics
What this source supports: $400M at ~$2B, led by Radical Ventures
What it does not establish: No revenue or customer metrics
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Robotics startup Generalist reaches $3B valuation, sources say
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Elite Robots collaborated with Generalist AI to validate GEN-1 on its cobot platform (1,800+ block stackings, 200+ box foldings, zero-intervention runs)
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Timeline
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partnership
Elite Robots collaborated with Generalist AI to validate GEN-1 on its cobot platform (1,800+ block stackings, 200+ box foldings, zero-intervention runs)
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Financing
$200M Series B extension led by 8VC at ~$3B valuation (round total $600M), disclosed via regulatory filing; two sources
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Financing
$400M round at ~$2B valuation, led by Radical Ventures
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