Generalist AI

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Generalist AI is a US robot-foundation-model lab (founded 2024 by Google DeepMind and Boston Dynamics veterans) whose GEN-1 model (April 2026) claims 99% reliability across dexterous tasks (up to 3x faster than prior state of the art), built on physical data-collection infrastructure at scale. It raised a $400M Series B in June 2026 (Radical Ventures-led at ~$2B), extended eight weeks later to a ~$600M round at $3B (NVIDIA, Bezos Expeditions, with angels Fei-Fei Li and Naval), part of a robotic-FM category that took $3.92B across nine deals in a year. It is pre-revenue at disclosure level, quantifying the brains-first capital thesis.

Latest signals

• 7 Sept 2026Generalist AI released GEN-1.5 with one-shot robot task learning.QbitAI 量子位
• 22 Aug 2026GEN-1.5 demonstrated zero-shot transfer from simulation to a physical robot.The AI Insider
• 22 Aug 2026Generalist AI pretrained GEN-1.5 for more than eight months on physical-interaction data.The AI Insider
• 22 Aug 2026GEN-1.5 achieved 59% one-shot and 83% few-shot success across 10 manipulation tasks.The AI Insider
• 22 Aug 2026GEN-1.5 combines multimodal robot inputs with approximately 30 seconds of context.The AI Insider

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• 7 Sept 2026Released GEN-1.5 with one-shot robot task learningProduct launch · QbitAI 量子位
• 22 Aug 2026GEN 1.5 listed at zero dollars and on backorderProduct launch · humanoid.guide
• 22 Aug 2026Released GEN 1.5, an embodied foundation model for robot learningProduct launch · humanoid.guide
• 20 Aug 2026[object Object]Revenue band · www.humanoidsdaily.com — 2026-08-20

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