▶ 1:05 · $GENERALIST · Lonsdale backs Generalist as robotics inflection arrives in late 2020s not 2030s

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Ex-DeepMind Scientist Just Solved Robotic's Toughest Challenge

2026-08-24 · 3 company · 13 thematic

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Joe Lonsdale hosts American Optimists. He co-founded Palantir Technologies and founded venture firm 8VC. He previously hired Scott Wu at an early company and references his experience building Palantir's forward-deployed engineer model and government technology partnerships.

pete florence

Pete Florence is a former senior research scientist at Google DeepMind (4.5 years) and MIT PhD. He founded Generalist to build general foundation models for robotics, achieving scaling-law breakthroughs with Gen Zero (Nov) and Gen One (Apr) models showing 99%+ reliability on one hour of data.

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“Based on what I've seen now in the last year and from our chat with Pete, it's really clear this stuff's going to matter really, really soon. In the next couple years, robots are going to be able to do everything.”

—joe lonsdale

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▶ 1:05 · $GENERALIST · Lonsdale backs Generalist as robotics inflection arrives in late 2020s not 2030s

episode briefing

Joe Lonsdale

Ex-DeepMind Scientist Just Solved Robotic's Toughest Challenge

2026-08-24 · 3 company · 13 thematic

sentiment

3 bull0 bear0 neu

speakers

joe lonsdale

pete florence

quote

“Based on what I've seen now in the last year and from our chat with Pete, it's really clear this stuff's going to matter really, really soon. In the next couple years, robots are going to be able to do everything.”

—joe lonsdale

episode shorts · 3

The coming explosion in general-purpose robots

How Robots Learn

Pete Florence on self-taught robots 🤯

now playing · $GENERALIST

$GENERALISTbullish· high· posjoe lonsdale

Lonsdale backs Generalist as robotics inflection arrives in late 2020s not 2030s

Joe Lonsdale, as investor and partner, states Generalist's progress proves general-purpose robotics will matter 'really, really soon' — within the next couple years — not the 2030…

$GENERALISTbullish· highpete florence

Generalist hits GPT-3 moment for robotics with Gen One model showing scaling laws

Generalist's Gen One robotics foundation model demonstrates scaling laws in physical AI, achieving 99%+ reliability on new tasks with just one hour of data, crossing into commerci…

$GENERALISTbullish· highpete florence

Gen One proves scaling laws in robotics with 99% reliability from one hour of data

Generalist's Gen One model is the first to show significant scaling laws in robotics, hitting 99%+ reliability at non-embarrassing speeds with improvisational intelligence on new…