A KEY DEEPMIND ROBOTICS RESEARCHER LEFT GOOGLE, AND NVIDIA HAS ALREADY BACKED HIS STEALTH STARTUP

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Pete Florence, previously a senior research scientist at DeepMind, has left to form Generalist AI, a robotics startup backed by Nvidia's VC arm, NVentures. The company aims to create general-purpose robots, with Florence highlighting the vision of reducing the marginal cost of physical labor to zero. Florence joins other former DeepMind scientists in launching tech ventures amidst Nvidia's growing influence in AI.