Genesis AI押注双手优先的机器人技术：1.05亿美元种子轮，GENE-26.5全栈模型

做的是什么生意

Genesis AI builds foundational AI for robots: the GENE foundation-model family trained across vision, tactile, proprioception and action data, plus the human-sized Genesis Hand, a wearable data-collection glove and simulation, aimed at general-purpose manipulation.

启动资金：$105M seed co-led by Eclipse Ventures and Khosla Ventures (announced July 2025), with Bpifrance, HSG and individuals including Eric Schmidt, Xavier Niel, Daniela Rus and Vladlen Koltun.

起因

Genesis AI was created in early 2025 by Zhou Xian (CEO) and Théophile Gervet (president, formerly a research scientist at Mistral AI). Just months after founding, in July 2025, it emerged from stealth with a $105M seed round co-led by Eclipse and Khosla Ventures — with Bpifrance, HSG, Eric Schmidt, Xavier Niel, Daniela Rus and Vladlen Koltun also in — to build a 'data engine' for training robot models.

经过

The founders concluded a model alone could not reach human-level manipulation, so Genesis went full stack: it designed the human-sized Genesis Hand with partner Wuji Tech, added a lightweight sensor-loaded glove and egocentric video capture so daily jobs double as data collection, and built a simulation system to speed model iteration. In May 2026 it released GENE-26.5, its first foundation model, demoing cooking, lab pipetting, smoothie-making, wire harnessing and a Rubik's cube solve at 1x speed with one set of weights; the team grew to ~60 across Paris, California and London.

可借鉴之处

如果数据是瓶颈，不要等待别人的硬件：控制全栈——模型、手、手套和模拟器——这样真实工作就能成为训练数据。