Generalist AI raised $400 million at a $2 billion valuation. Radical Ventures led the round, with 8VC, Union Square Ventures, Norwest, Hanabi, NVentures, Bezos Expeditions and prominent angels including Fei-Fei Li involved.
What changed
The founding team combines DeepMind and Boston Dynamics backgrounds. CEO Pete Florence and chief scientist Andy Zeng worked on robot learning, while CTO Andrew Barry brings robotics engineering experience.
What to watch
The company’s GEN-1 foundation model targets adaptation: robots should recover when a grasp fails, when lighting changes or when objects deform. Investors are betting that physical-world AI will be much larger than another chatbot market.
Sources：Bloomberg, SiliconANGLE and Silicon Republic reports on Generalist AI funding；CocoLoop