A senior analysis scientist at DeepMind who labored on robotics and AI has left Google to create his personal robotics startup, known as Generalist AI, and has already obtained funding from Nvidia, TechCrunch has discovered.
Pete Florence was listed as co-founder and CEO of Generalist AI at a panel at Nvidia’s GTC convention in San Jose yesterday. The panel was for portfolio firms of Nvidia’s VC arm, NVentures.
NVentures has turn into an particularly energetic enterprise capital agency since Nvidia has loved skyrocketing monetary success on this new age of AI.
“We are largely nonetheless in stealth,” Florence advised TechCrunch, explaining that the mission of the startup is “to make general-purpose robots a actuality.”
Florence left DeepMind a 12 months in the past, per his LinkedIn profile. DeepMind pupil researcher Kamyar Ghasemipour has additionally joined Generalist AI as a founding technical employees member, based on Ghasemipour’s LinkedIn.
Florence joins a string of different DeepMind alums who’ve based their very own firms like autonomous coding startup Reflection AI, biotech startup Latent Labs, Mistral, and others.
Outside of DeepMind however nonetheless inside Alphabet, key leaders behind Google’s viral NotebookLM product left to discovered their very own AI startup late final 12 months.
DeepMind has its personal robotics division, which unveiled new AI fashions for controlling robots this month. Work co-authored by Florence is cited 4 occasions within the paper asserting the fashions.
Florence stated he couldn’t specify precisely what his startup was as much as in the course of the GTC panel, nevertheless it’s clear it would deal with robotics.
“We are useless set on making robots that may do completely something,” Florence stated in response to a query about what the world would seem like if his startup was wildly profitable.
“So simply think about a world the place the marginal value of bodily labor is pushed to zero.”
Nvidia declined to remark. Google didn’t reply to a request for remark.
