A senior research scientist at DeepMind who worked on robotics and AI has left Google to create his own robotics startup, called Generalist AI, and it has already obtained investment from Nvidia.
Former DeepMind employee Pete Florence was listed as co-founder and CEO of Generalist AI at a panel at Nvidia’s GTC conference in San Jose on Tuesday. The panel showcased portfolio companies of Nvidia’s VC arm, NVentures.
“We are largely still in stealth,” Florence told TechCrunch, explaining that the mission of his startup is “to make general-purpose robots a reality.”
Florence joins a string of other DeepMind alums who have founded their own companies, like autonomous coding startup Reflection AI, biotech startup Latent Labs, Mistral, and others.
Nvidia declined to comment. For more on Generalist AI and what it does, read TechCrunch’s article here.
