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Robotics startup Generalist has secured nearly $200 million in additional funding, raising the company’s valuation to $3 billion just months after it was valued at $2 billion. The company is developing an artificial intelligence foundation model that can be used with multiple types of robots, but it faces a market still searching for a practical way to build general-purpose robotics models.
Generalist AI introduced the GEN-1.5 model, capable of learning new physical tasks from a single demonstration lasting between 3 and 12 seconds, without additional training or fine-tuning. The model achieved an average success rate of 59% on a set of short manipulation tasks, rising to 83% after adaptation with additional data.