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AI startups · Robot brains

Generalist AI

“Generalist is a frontier AI research and product driven company building general intelligence for the physical world.” Generalist AI, company-reported

  • $2Bvaluation at its last closed round, Jun 4, 2026
  • 2024founded
  • Has a model or API3 things shipped, by our search
The facts

Generalist AI at a glance.

Read Oct 20, 2026. Valuations and amounts are copied as each source states them; a figure that is only reported (talks, or people familiar with the deal) is labeled as reported.

Kind of company
Robot brainsThe AI software that lets robots see, plan and move.
Based in
United States
Founded
2024Bloomberg, Jun 4, 2026
Last closed-round valuation
$2B$2 billion, including the money raised (Bloomberg, Jun 4, 2026)
What it has shipped
Has a model or API
Founders
  • Pete Florence: co-founder and CEO (background not given in fetched sources) (Robotics 24/7, Jun 5, 2026)
  • Andy Zeng: co-founder and chief scientist (Robotics 24/7, Jun 5, 2026)
  • Andrew Barry: co-founder and CTO (Robotics 24/7, Jun 5, 2026)
Latest news

Published GEN-1.5, "Embodied Foundation Models are One-Shot Learners". Aug 19, 2026

Generalist AI (company-reported), Aug 19, 2026

What it has built

Shipped, or not yet.

“Has a model or API” is what our search found: something the public can use or buy, a model or API, research only, or nothing public.

model · Nov 2025

GEN-0 embodied foundation model

Source
model · Apr 2026

GEN-1 (company reports 99% reliability on diverse tasks)

Source
model · Aug 19, 2026

GEN-1.5, one-shot task learning; access via waitlist

Source
1 round

Funding, as reported.

Every round we found, with the amount, valuation and investors as the source states them.

WhenRoundAmountValuationInvestors namedSource
Jun 4, 2026not named$400 million$2 billion, including the money raisedRadical Ventures (lead), 8VC, Union Square Ventures, Norwest, Hanabi Capital, Nvidia, Bezos Expeditions, Eric Yuan, Lin Bin, Fei-Fei LiBloomberg
Our note

Worth knowing.

Our note: Reliability figures are company-reported. Robotics 24/7 says total raised is more than half a billion dollars.