What if the next large foundational model was intended for robotics? It is the bet of Genesis Ai, which today announces a fundraising of $ 105 million, or 90 million euros, to develop a unified infrastructure of physical artificial intelligence. Its ambition is to create a universal foundation model to automate manual tasks on a global scale, combining simulation, real data and generative AI.
The company articulates its vision around an observation while the major models of language (LLM) have transformed digital uses, physical AI, that is to say the artificial intelligence applied to machines in the real world, remains embryonic. Zhou Xian, CEO of Genesis Ai, specifies: ” If digital AI has experienced spectacular advances, physical AI, which allows machines to understand and interact effectively with the real world, has remained behind. To remedy this, Genesis designs an integrated platform combining high fidelity simulation, massive collection of real data and multimodal generative modeling.
The objective is to lead to a general foundation model, a robotic equivalent of the LLM, capable of adapting your skills to a wide variety of physical tasks, in non -marked environments. The company thus intends to cross the limits of current robotic systems, still too specialized, rigid and expensive to adapt on a large scale. It aims to industrialize a generation of more flexible, smarter machines, capable of reasoning and executing with dexterity.
Genesis is attacking an immense latent market, manual tasks would represent between $ 30,000 and $ 40,000 billion in world GDP, 95 % of which remain un automatized. This inertia is partly explained by the complexity of the collection of physical data necessary for learning, a major obstacle that the startup intends to raise thanks to a data centered approach, and an internal simulation infrastructure openly open to the community.
Founded by a team from Mistral AI, Nvidia, MIT, CMU, Stanford, Columbia or UMD, Genesis Combine Fundamental Research and Industrial Engineering. It sets up its headquarters in France and the United States, focusing on the richness of the pool of European talents. “” We have chosen to settle in France because of its exceptional pool of talents in the field of artificial intelligence and robotics », Underlines Théophile Gervet, co -founder of Genesis.
Genesis Ai raised $ 105 million (90 million euros) during this first round of funding, led by Eclipse and Khosla Ventures, with the participation of Bpifrance, HSG, as well as renowned individual investors: Eric Schmidt (ex-CEO from Google) and Xavier Niel (Iliad).
