# Embodied AI and foundation models for robotics reaching real-world deployment scale

> The same foundation-model recipe that transformed text and images is now being aimed at the physical world, and this piece tracks how close it is getting to real deployment. Generalist AI, a standout in the field, raised $400 million at a $2 billion valuation to scale up foundation models for robots, the kind meant to generalize across many machines and environments rather than being programmed for one task. The reported results are what make it notable. The company's GEN-1 model shows 99% reliability across dexterous manipulation tasks and executes them roughly three times faster than previous state-of-the-art systems. Crucially, the model is designed to work across multiple robot types, not just a single arm in a single lab. If those numbers hold up outside the demo reel, this is the beginning of robots that learn general skills instead of hand-coded routines. Reliability and speed are exactly the barriers that have kept robots penned into factories, and cracking them is what would let embodied AI spill out into warehouses, homes and the messy real world.

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## Wortins' read

The same foundation-model recipe that transformed text and images is now being aimed at the physical world, and this piece tracks how close it is getting to real deployment. Generalist AI, a standout in the field, raised $400 million at a $2 billion valuation to scale up foundation models for robots, the kind meant to generalize across many machines and environments rather than being programmed for one task. The reported results are what make it notable. The company's GEN-1 model shows 99% reliability across dexterous manipulation tasks and executes them roughly three times faster than previous state-of-the-art systems. Crucially, the model is designed to work across multiple robot types, not just a single arm in a single lab. If those numbers hold up outside the demo reel, this is the beginning of robots that learn general skills instead of hand-coded routines. Reliability and speed are exactly the barriers that have kept robots penned into factories, and cracking them is what would let embodied AI spill out into warehouses, homes and the messy real world.

## Source

[Read the full story at Ventureburn](https://ventureburn.com/generalist-ai-raises-400m-reaches-2b-valuation/)

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