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Generalist AI raises $400 million for AI-powered robotics
The startup, focused on robots able to perform complex real-world tasks, was valued at $2 billion in the new round.
[{"h":"The round","p":"Generalist AI, a startup focused on AI-powered robotics, raised $400 million in a new investment round, reaching a $2 billion valuation, according to a Crunchbase roundup of the biggest rounds of the first week of June 2026."},{"h":"The company's focus","p":"The company builds robots aimed at complex real-world tasks, one of the segments that attracted the most AI venture capital in the first half of 2026, alongside inference infrastructure and frontier models."},{"h":"The bigger picture","p":"The round is part of a record month for AI venture capital in the US: in the first six months of 2026, the sector had already raised about $395 billion across roughly 3,850 investment rounds, up 130% from the same period in 2025."}]