Generalist AI raises $400M at a $2B valuation for general-purpose robots

Backed by NVIDIA and Bezos Expeditions, the startup from ex-DeepMind scientist Pete Florence raised $400M led by Radical Ventures to build foundation models for robots. Its GEN-1 model, trained on 500,000+ hours of real-world data, claims dexterous tasks at 99% reliability and up to 3× past speeds.