A key DeepMind robotics researcher left Google, and Nvidia has already backed his stealth startup

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 has already obtained investment from Nvidia, TechCrunch has learned. Pete Florence was listed as co-founder and CEO of Generalist AI at a panel at Nvidia’s GTC conference in San Jose yesterday. The panel was for portfolio companies of Nvidia’s VC arm, NVentures. NVentures has become an especially active venture capital firm since Nvidia has enjoyed skyrocketing financial success in this new age of AI. “We are largely still in stealth,” Florence told TechCrunch, explaining that the mission of the startup is “to make general-purpose robots a reality.” Florence left DeepMind a year ago, per his LinkedIn profile. DeepMind student researcher Kamyar Ghasemipour has also joined Generalist AI as a founding technical staff member, according to Ghasemipour’s LinkedIn. Florence joins a string of other DeepMind alums who have founded their own com ... Read full article.