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.
The round
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.
The company's focus
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.
The bigger picture
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.
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