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Generalist AI raises $400M

Generalist AI announced a Series A round of $400M on 4 June 2026. The company operates in Robotics & Hardware and is based in United States. It was founded by Pete Florence, Co-founder & CEO.

Raised
$400M
Stage
Series A
Industry
Robotics & Hardware
Country
United States

Founder

Pete Florence
Co-founder & CEO, Generalist AI
LinkedIn profilegeneralistai.com

Outreach angles

  • -Pete Florence is a former Google DeepMind researcher who helped architect the PaLM-E and RT-2 robotics models before co-founding Generalist AI.
  • -He is building GEN-1, an AI foundation model designed to control any robot hardware rather than a single robot type.
  • -Generalist AI raised a $400M Series A led by Radical Ventures with NVIDIA and Bezos Expeditions backing, pushing total funding past $500M to scale its universal robot brain.

Signals

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Round details

Company: Generalist AI
Domain: generalistai.com
Amount: $400M
Stage: Series A
Industry: Robotics & Hardware
Country: United States
Announced: 4 June 2026
Source: announcement

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