Company record
Generalist AI
Updated November 2, 2026 · Presspool
Generalist is an AI research and product company building general intelligence for the physical world, training embodied foundation models (the GEN series) that run robots. generalistai.com
Funding
- $400 million, round type not disclosed, announced June 4, 2026. Led by Radical Ventures. Sources: generalistai.com.
Whether AI names Generalist AI
- On the Physical AI map: named or cited in 12 of 49 answers to Presspool's Physical AI questions on November 2, 2026 (ChatGPT 5 of 8, Claude 2 of 8, Perplexity 2 of 8, Gemini 1 of 8, Copilot 1 of 8, Google AI Mode 1 of 8, Google AI Overviews 0 of 1). See the map. Of the 53 companies on the map, Generalist AI ranked 8th by answers naming or citing it in that sample. The other companies AI names most on Physical AI questions: Figure (38 of 49), Physical Intelligence (28 of 49), Skild AI (27 of 49), Agility Robotics (26 of 49) and Unitree (26 of 49). Most often named in the same answers: Physical Intelligence (11), Skild AI (11), Figure (10), 1X (8), Apptronik (7).
Week by week
Answers that named or cited Generalist AI in each weekly sample of Presspool's Physical AI questions, by the Monday of the sample week. A row is added every week.
| Week of | Physical AI |
|---|---|
| September 21, 2026 | 3 of 38 |
| October 5, 2026 | 6 of 48 |
| October 12, 2026 | 11 of 53 |
| October 19, 2026 | 4 of 54 |
| October 26, 2026 | 7 of 55 |
| November 2, 2026 | 12 of 49 |
Sources AI cites when it names Generalist AI
Presspool asked its 8 Physical AI questions on November 2, 2026; 12 of the 49 answers named or cited Generalist AI, on ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot and Google AI Mode. The sites those 12 answers cited most:
- nvidia.com: 5 of 12 answers
- openai.com: 5 of 12 answers
- crunchbase.com: 3 of 12 answers
- figure.ai: 3 of 12 answers
- 1x.tech: 2 of 12 answers
- agilityrobotics.com: 2 of 12 answers
- apptronik.com: 2 of 12 answers
- bvp.com: 2 of 12 answers
- cbinsights.com: 2 of 12 answers
- deepmind.google: 2 of 12 answers
Related records
Also on the Physical AI map: 1X, AeiROBOT, AgiBot, Agile Robots, Agility Robotics, Aleph, Apptronik, ASI, Astribot, Bedrock Robotics, Booster Robotics, Clone Robotics and 40 more on the map.
Radical Ventures, which led this round, also led Decart ($300M, round type not disclosed, May 18, 2026).