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


Nvidia has invested in a startup founded by a former Google DeepMind senior research scientist who specialized in robotics and AI.

Pete Florence was listed as co-founder and CEO of Generalist AI at a panel at Nvidia’s GTC conference in San Jose yesterday. “We are largely still in stealth,” Florence told TechCrunch, explaining that the mission of the startup is “to make general-purpose robots a reality.” “We are dead set on making robots that can do absolutely anything,” Florence said in response to a question about what the world would look like if his startup was wildly successful.

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