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A fourth-year inquiry scientist at DeepMind who crop on robotics and AI has bequeath Google to produce his own robotics inauguration , calledGeneralist AI , and has already obtained investing from Nvidia , TechCrunch has larn .
Pete Florencewas listedas carbon monoxide - founder and CEO of Generalist AI on a panel at Nvidia ’s GTC conference in San Jose yesterday . The venire was for portfolio companies of Nvidia ’s VC branch , NVentures .
NVentures has becomean especially active venture capital firmsince Nvidia has enjoyed skyrocketing financial success in this new age of AI .
“ We are for the most part still in stealing , ” Florence told TechCrunch , explaining that the inauguration ’s mission is “ to make general - role robot a realism . ”
Firenze left DeepMind a year ago , per his LinkedIn visibility . DeepMind student researcher Kamyar Ghasemipour has also joined Generalist AI as a founding technical stave appendage , concord to Ghasemipour ’s LinkedIn .
Florence unite a string of other DeepMind alum who have founded their own companies like autonomous tantalise startupReflection AI , biotech startupLatent Labs , Mistral , and others .
outdoors of DeepMind but still within Alphabet , key drawing card behind Google ’s viral NotebookLM productleft to found their own AI inauguration late last class .
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DeepMind has its own robotics division , whichunveiled unexampled AI models for controlling robotsthis calendar month . Work co - author by Florence is cited four timesin the paperannouncing the models .
Florence said he could n’t specify exactly what his startup was up to during the GTC panel , but it ’s clear it will focus on robotics .
“ We are drained coif on make robot that can do absolutely anything , ” Florence said in reply to a question about what the humankind would look like if his startup was wildly successful .
“ So just imagine a world where the fringy cost of forcible labor is driven to zero . ”
Nvidia declined to point out . Google did n’t react to a petition for comment .
