Generalist AI has reportedly raised an additional nearly $200 million in an extension of its Series B round, bringing the robotics startup's valuation to about $3 billion.

TechCrunch reported the financing, citing two people with knowledge of the round and a regulatory filing for the new capital. The report says 8VC led the extension, which follows a $400 million Series B led by Radical Ventures in June at a reported $2 billion valuation. Generalist and 8VC did not comment to TechCrunch, so the valuation should be treated as reported rather than company-confirmed.

The financing matters because Generalist sits in the increasingly crowded race to build broadly useful robot foundation models. The company, founded by former Google DeepMind researchers Pete Florence and Andy Zeng and former Boston Dynamics engineer Andrew Barry, describes its mission as making general-purpose robots a reality.

Generalist's latest public technical marker is GEN-1.5, a robot foundation model the company says can learn a new task from 3 to 12 seconds of demonstration data, or adapt with a small number of gradient steps on minutes of data. The company says the model processes video, sensor, language, and proprioceptive inputs and produces 100 Hz action trajectories.

The new reported valuation puts Generalist alongside a wave of heavily funded physical AI companies, but the technical bar remains high. Unlike language models, robots cannot draw on internet-scale interaction data, making reliable real-world generalization slower and more expensive to prove.