Pete Florence, a senior research scientist at DeepMind, has left Google to establish a robotics startup named Generalist AI, attracting investment from Nvidia. Announced at Nvidia's GTC conference, the startup aims to create general-purpose robots, highlighting Florence's ambition to revolutionize robotics. With other DeepMind alumni founding various AI startups, Generalist AI joins a growing trend within the industry. Florence, emphasizing the startup's stealth phase, articulated a vision of making robots capable of performing any task, envisioning a future where the cost of physical labor approaches zero.
"We are largely still in stealth," Florence told TechCrunch, explaining that the mission of the startup is "to make general-purpose robots a reality."
"We are dead set on making robots that can do absolutely anything," Florence said in response to a question about what the world would look like if his startup was wildly successful.
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.
Florence said he couldn't specify exactly what his startup was up to during the GTC panel, but it's clear it will focus on robotics.
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