Generalist AI is an Nvidia- and Bezos-backed robotics startup—founded in 2024 by former Google DeepMind and Boston Dynamics researchers (CEO Pete Florence, CTO Andrew Barry)—building hardware-agnostic foundation models for "physical AGI" that recently raised $400 million at a roughly $2 billion valuation on the back of its GEN-1 model, which hits a 99% success rate on dexterous manipulation tasks like folding clothes and packing boxes.
