Generalist CEO Pete Florence on Gen 1.5, cross-embodiment and robot world models
SethGRosenberg · x · 2026-10-07
Greylock's Change Agents podcast hosts Generalist AI CEO & co-founder Pete Florence to cut through the weekly 'GPT-3 moment for robotics' hype.
Topics covered:
- The inception of Generalist and its long-term goal of a generalized physical model
- Key differentiators of the new Gen 1.5 model, including few-shot learning
- Cross-embodiment training and the importance of hands
- Emergent capabilities not explicitly trained for
- Beyond VLA: world models and future-looking milestones
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