The verified answer
As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies Generalist AI: 1 model. 3 sources back the record.
Employees
88
Overview
Generalist AI Inc. is a San Mateo-based robotics-AI company founded in 2024 by former Google DeepMind and Boston Dynamics engineers. The company builds embodied foundation models for general-purpose robots, including GEN-0 (released Nov 2025) and GEN-1 (released Apr 2026), which demonstrate cross-embodiment adaptation across different robot platforms and end effectors. Backed by Nvidia NVentures, Radical Ventures, Spark Capital, and Bezos Expeditions, Generalist raised USD 400M at a USD 2B valuation in June 2026.
Reality check
Models (company-claimed)
GEN-0 (Nov 2025) and GEN-1 (Apr 2026) foundation models trained on physical interaction data.
GEN-1.5 (company-claimed)
Learns new tasks from a 3 to 12 second demo without gradient updates.
Target markets (company-claimed)
Manufacturing, logistics, kitting, packing and appliance servicing.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Valuation of record
Company-claimedPriced roundSeries B extension post-money
Key facts
Founders (reported, unconfirmed)
Funding (reported, Jun 2026)
Investors (reported, unconfirmed)
Next round (reported, unconfirmed)
Deployment status (reported, unconfirmed)
Data & sources
Press releases
1
News coverage
1
Web sources
1
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Generalist AI on the deployment map
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Relationships
Current leadership (3)
- Pete Florence Co-founder and CEOsince 2024-03-01secondary-verified
- Andy Zeng Co-founder and Chief Scientistsince 2024-03-01secondary-verified
- Andrew Barry Co-founder and CTOsince 2024-03-01secondary-verified
Founders (3)
- Pete Florencecofounderfounded 2024-03-01
- Andy Zengcofounderfounded 2024-03-01
- Andrew Barrycofounderfounded 2024-03-01
Safety record
No incidents on record for Generalist AI.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Brains developed (2)
- GEN-0 (and GEN-1)foundation-model · research
- GEN-1foundation-model · pilot
Recent coverage
Generalist AI in third-party press
Peers
144 peers across 1 segment. Every Generalist AI competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
service(144)
113 companies in this segment · competitive (HHI 831.3520919269878) · leader Bond at 1957%
- Field AIdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Physical Intelligencedirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Rhoda AIdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Skild AIdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- 1X Technologiesdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- A&K Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
Mentioned on (10)
Registry pages whose text names Generalist AI.
Companies (2)
Robots and products (1)
AI systems (3)
People (4)
Financial state
- Employees
- 88
- Reporting basis
- aggregator_estimate
- Lifecycle stage
- growth
- Counterparty risk class
- moderate
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Funding rounds (2)
Generalist AI’s 2 disclosed rounds, $600M in total, oldest to newest.
- Series B extension2026-08-25
$200M(reported) · $3.0B post
Investors: 8VC (lead)
- Series A2026-06-04
$400M(reported) · $2.4B post
Investors: Radical Ventures (lead), 8VC (follow), Union Square Ventures (follow), Norwest Venture Partners (follow), Hanabi Capital (follow), Nvidia (strategic), Jeff Bezos / Bezos Expeditions (follow), Boldstart Ventures (follow), Spark Capital (follow), Lin Bin (follow), Fei-Fei Li (follow), Naval Ravikant (follow), NVentures (NVIDIA) (strategic), Norwest Venture Partners, Nvidia NVentures
Timeline
Every recorded move in Generalist AI’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Funding roundRound (2026) funding round
2026-06-04Round (2026) raising $400000000
Funding roundSeries A funding round
2026-06-04Series A raising $400000000
Funding roundOther funding round
2026-06-04Other raising $400000000
Key hirePete Florence joins as Co-founder and CEO
2024-03-01Pete Florence appointed Co-founder and CEO (current)
Key hireAndy Zeng joins as Co-founder and Chief Scientist
2024-03-01Andy Zeng appointed Co-founder and Chief Scientist (current)
Key hireAndrew Barry joins as Co-founder and CTO
2024-03-01Andrew Barry appointed Co-founder and CTO (current)
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 3, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (3)
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Methodology: Verified · 3 sources (1 primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-12
Verification posture
Verified
High confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-12
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- primary-company-ir
- Company IR disclosure
- 1
- secondary-industry-publication
- Industry publication
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Generalist AI.Peer companies
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- Genesis AI2 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Generalist AI from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Cambridge University spinout launches AI model "competitive" with OpenAI and Anthropic
A Cambridge University spinout has today launched a “frontier-class” generalist AI model which it says is competitive with OpenAI and Anthropic's leading models and can be…
Robotics startup Generalist reaches $3B valuation, sources say
The $200 million extension comes just months after the physical AI startup reached a $2 billion valuation.
Robotics AI startup Generalist reportedly raises $200M
Generalist AI Inc., a startup that develops artificial intelligence software for robots, has reportedly raised $200 million in funding. Axios today cited a source as saying that…
Generalist AI Releases GEN-1.5 Robot Foundation Model That Learns From a Single Demonstration
Insider Brief Generalist AI has released GEN-1.5, a new robot foundation model designed to learn physical tasks from one or a few demonstrations while also generalizing to some…
I Saw the Future of AI in a Robot That Can Learn on the Spot
During a recent visit to Generalist AI, I watched a robotic arm improvise and use a banana as a tool.
GEN-1.5: Embodied Foundation Models are One-Shot Learners
Generalist AI introduces GEN-1.5, a robot foundation model with one-shot learning from 3-12 seconds of demonstration. No gradient updates or fine-tuning needed. Features…
Generalist AI to Raise a New Funding Round at a $3 Billion Valuation
Generalist AI, the physical AI startup building foundation models for general-purpose robots, is reportedly in active discussions to… The post Generalist AI to Raise a New Funding…
Robotics startup Generalist AI is in talks to raise a new funding round at a billion valuation
Generalist AI is in talks to raise at a billion valuation, 50% higher than its B valuation from June 2026. 8VC is expected to lead. The company raised 00M in June led by Radical…
Autonomique deploys semi-humanoid robots and AI at Canadian Tier 1
Can $2 Billion Startup Generalist AI Solve the Robot Training Conundrum?
Generalist AI Raises $400M, Reaches $2B Valuation
Generalist AI raises $400M at $2B valuation, backed by Nvidia
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/generalist-ai.md
- RSS feed: /companies/generalist-ai/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/b1f7a0fa-0572-487a-bc01-05c38423355c
- Revision history: /companies/generalist-ai/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Blackswan Space3 models
- CarbonSix2 models
- Embark Trucks2 models
- Gatik2 models
- General Intuition2 models
- Genesis AI2 models
Video
We've created GEN-1, our latest milestone in scaling robot learning. We believe it to be the first general-purpose AI model that crosses a new performance thres
As a first step towards our mission of deploying general purpose robots, we are pushing the frontiers of what end-to-end AI models can achieve in the real world
We've created GEN-1, our latest milestone in scaling robot learning. We believe it to be the first general-purpose AI model that crosses a new performance thres
We've created GEN-1, our latest milestone in scaling robot learning. We believe it to be the first general-purpose AI model that crosses a new performance thres
We've created GEN-1, our latest milestone in scaling robot learning. We believe it to be the first general-purpose AI model that crosses a new performance thres
We've created GEN-1, our latest milestone in scaling robot learning. We believe it to be the first general-purpose AI model that crosses a new performance thres
Why create robot intelligence for just one hand, when we could have it learn from many? GEN-1, our latest embodied foundation model, now supports a broad range
We've created GEN-1, our latest milestone in scaling robot learning. We believe it to be the first general-purpose AI model that crosses a new performance thres
Robot Performs a Magic Trick We've created GEN-1, our latest milestone in scaling robot learning. We believe it to be the first general-purpose AI model that c
We’ve created GEN-1, our latest milestone in scaling robot learning. We believe it to be the first general-purpose AI model that crosses a new performance thres
We've created GEN-1, our latest milestone in scaling robot learning. We believe it to be the first general-purpose AI model that crosses a new performance thres
#ai #robot #usa Generalist AI has announced the release of GEN-1, marking a significant leap from research prototype to what the company calls "commercial viab
Heat Index
Category contender75/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Generalist AI draws attention at the 82nd percentile but verifies reality at the insufficient-data level among brain robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Well-capitalized with $600M raised and recent funding activity. Meaningful press and media coverage across the period.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 17, 2026