pete florence

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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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Generalist demonstrates robotics scaling laws: Gen 1 model crossing commercial viability threshold for dexterity

Generalist builds foundation models for physical world robotics. Gen 0 (Nov) first showed predictable scaling laws with compute/data. Gen 1 (Apr) crosses into commercial viability for dexterous manipulation (wire harnessing, unstructured tasks). Data hierarchy: lived experience S-tier, internet video B-tier, mocap C-tier, simulation C-tier, internet text B-tier, world models/synthetic F-tier. Industrial applications (logistics, manufacturing) will scale before consumer.

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HIGHpete florence·Joe Lonsdale·last month·Ex-DeepMind Scientist Just Solved Robotic's Toughest Challenge

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 commercial viability years ahead of consensus 2030s timeline.

"it feels like we are in the kind of GPT3 era for robotics models... Gen One starts to be capable of really... hit these like 99% plus levels of reliability on just one single hour…"

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HIGHpete florence·Joe Lonsdale·last month·Ex-DeepMind Scientist Just Solved Robotic's Toughest Challenge

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 tasks using only one hour of robot data, a leap from Gen Zero's scientific milestone.

"Our first model we announced back in November our gen zero model um it was a very significant like moment overall for for the field. It was really um it was the first model to sho…"

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HIGHpete florence·TBPN·4 months ago·WWDC, Jobs Up Stocks Down, VC Horror Stories, Cars and Planes· position

Generalist demonstrates robotics scaling laws: Gen 1 model crossing commercial viability threshold for dexterity

"We announced our Gen Zero model back in November... really was the first time in robotics that anybody had shown like general scaling laws... fast forward just five months... we a…"

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