The Generalist

6 statements across 1 episodes · 6 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 24, 2026 by Pete Florence · said 3 times in 1 episodes since 2026 · across every show →

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Aug 24, 2026 bullish
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Florence: Gen-1 reached 99 percent reliability with one hour of data
“Gen one was able to across several different tasks and then many other tasks that we showed since hit these, like, 99% plus levels of reliability on just one single hour of robot data.”
Pete Florence Aug 24, 2026 ▶ 26:45 Ex-DeepMind Scientist Just Solved Robotic's Toughest Challenge
Aug 24, 2026 bullish
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Florence: Generalist robots generalize to untrained tools for complex tasks
“Another one is the ability to have some, like, ingenuity around how to use tools in a way that was also not trained for the task. So basically we can ask the robot to do a certain type of task where we've only trained it with one type of tool. We can give it a…”
Pete Florence Aug 24, 2026 ▶ 19:43 Ex-DeepMind Scientist Just Solved Robotic's Toughest Challenge
Aug 24, 2026 positive
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Florence: Gen-0 was the first model demonstrating scaling laws in robotics
“It was the first model to show scaling laws really exist in, in robotics in, in in really in, in any significant way, I would say.”
Pete Florence Aug 24, 2026 ▶ 24:42 Ex-DeepMind Scientist Just Solved Robotic's Toughest Challenge
Aug 24, 2026 bullish
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Florence: Generalist trains on hundreds of thousands of interaction hours
“What this looks like more concretely, I would say, is, like, we just train a model on hundreds of thousands or millions of hours of data of Every single type of possible physical interaction in the world we can think of, and then we now have a model that we ca…”
Pete Florence Aug 24, 2026 ▶ 18:09 Ex-DeepMind Scientist Just Solved Robotic's Toughest Challenge
Aug 24, 2026 bullish
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Florence: Generalist can train robot models on new tasks in minutes
“Yes, we are now starting to get into the modes where we can train a model on, on a new task in, in minutes.”
Pete Florence Aug 24, 2026 ▶ 20:34 Ex-DeepMind Scientist Just Solved Robotic's Toughest Challenge
Aug 24, 2026 bullish
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Florence: Generalist's robotics model demonstrates emergent ambidexterity
“One that we continue to see which has been quite surprising, is that we can take the model trained on everything, the raw pre-trained model, and then we can train it on a new task, and for that new task we might only ever use the right hand when we are demonst…”
Pete Florence Aug 24, 2026 ▶ 18:55 Ex-DeepMind Scientist Just Solved Robotic's Toughest Challenge
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