Genesis AI

Genesis AI is a physical-AI research lab and full-stack robotics company founded in December 2024 by Zhou Xian (a robotics PhD from Carnegie Mellon) and Théophile Gervet (a former research scientist at Mistral AI and Skild AI), alongside co-founder Tsun-Hsuan Wang of MIT. Headquartered dually in Palo Alto and Paris, the company is building a universal robotics foundation model paired with a scalable data engine that combines in-house physics simulation, generative modeling, and real-robot data collection - an approach meant to train one model to control any robot for any task. It emerged from stealth on July 1, 2025 with $105M co-led by Eclipse and Khosla Ventures, with Bpifrance, HSG, Eric Schmidt, Xavier Niel, Daniela Rus, and Vladlen Koltun also backing it. In May 2026 Genesis launched GENE-26.5, a robotics foundation model it says delivers human-level physical manipulation, demonstrated on a dexterous hand that solved a Rubik's Cube mid-air, played piano, and executed a 20-step cooking task. Its product line spans GENE-26.5, the Genesis World 1.0 simulation platform, and Eno, a 20-degree-of-freedom general-purpose robot, with customer deployments targeted by the end of 2026. The company has said it will open-source components of its data engine and foundation model.