Robotics & physical AI · San Mateo, US · founded 2024
Generalist AI: who founded it, who funds it
Generalist AI is a San Mateo robotics lab founded in 2024 by Pete Florence, Andy Zeng and Andrew Barry, who came from DeepMind and Boston Dynamics. What it is building: physical AGI: hardware-agnostic cross-embodiment models (GEN-0, GEN-1). It has raised $750M in disclosed rounds, most recently a Series B extension of $200M at a $3B valuation in August 2026, led by 8VC. It has not released anything outsiders can use yet.
- Founders
- Pete Florence (ex-Google DeepMind), Andy Zeng (ex-Google DeepMind), Andrew Barry (ex-Boston Dynamics)
- Founders from
- ex-Google DeepMind, ex-Boston Dynamics
- Location
- San Mateo, US (North America)
- Valuation
- $3B set by the last priced round
- Raised
- $750M disclosed
- Investors
- Radical Ventures lead, Nvidia, Fei-Fei Li, 8VC lead
- What ships
- Research only
Rounds
| Date | Round | Amount | Valuation | Lead | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 2026 | Series B extension | $200M | $3B | 8VC | finance.yahoo.com |
| Jun 4, 2026 | Series B | $400M | $2B | Radical Ventures | siliconrepublic.com |
| Nov 15, 2025 | Earlier rounds (aggregate)Tracxn: $700M+ total funding; earlier rounds not itemised | $150M | · | · | tracxn.com |
Sources
- Bloomberg bloomberg.com
News
- Oct 2, 2026
- Sep 25, 2026
- Sep 9, 2026
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Aug 25, 2026
+1 more coverage
- SiliconANGLE Robotics AI startup Generalist reportedly raises $200M
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Jul 29, 2026
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Jun 4, 2026
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- The Robot Report Generalist raises $400M to scale its general-purpose AI models
- Yahoo Finance Generalist AI raises $400M at $2B valuation, backed by Nvidia
Investors who back other labs here
- Nvidia also: Safe Superintelligence, Reflection AI, Skild AI, Poolside
- Radical Ventures also: World Labs, Decart, Prime Intellect, Inherent
- 8VC also: Cognition
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