# Pete Florence: person

Canonical ID: `6d523a9b-b8db-4068-ad9b-b5dc0e0cc1d3`

Co-founder and CEO of Generalist AI (2024). Former senior research scientist at Google DeepMind; led research behind RT-2 (robotic control from vision-language models) and PaLM-E (early AI model for robotics). Building foundation models for general-purpose physical AI across industrial robots.

- **Nationality:** American
- **Verification posture:** verified

## Current roles (1)

- [Generalist AI](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/generalist-ai.md) Co-founder and CEO since 2024-03-01 (secondary-verified)

## Foundings (1)

- [Generalist AI](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/generalist-ai.md) founded 2024-03-01 (cofounder)

## Sources (2)

1. https://siliconangle.com/2026/06/04/generalist-ai-raises-400m-2b-valuation-build-general-intelligence-real-world/
2. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-04/nvidia-backed-robotics-startup-generalist-ai-valued-at-2-billion


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