Xavier Niel

Today, We’re launching Genesis AI — a global physical AI lab and full-stack robotics company — to build generalist robots and unlock unlimited physical labor. We’re backed by $105M in seed funding from @EclipseVentures, @khoslaventures, @Bpifrance, HSG, and visionaries including @ericschmidt and @Xavier75 . General-purpose robots will be the next chapter in human history. Half of global GDP is physical. Less than 5% is automated. Today’s robots are too narrow, rigid, and expensive to scale. We need a new generation of adaptable, foundation-model-driven systems. We are a new generation of robotics builders, united by a shared mission to push the boundaries of physical AI. Our team brings together the minds behind many recent key advances spanning robotics, imitation learning, RL, simulation, GPU compilers, and foundation models — bridging historically siloed communities. We co-created UMI and Diffusion Policy, pioneered RL for superhuman drone racing, and scaled robotic data pipelines at NVIDIA GR00T. We introduced the paradigm of generative simulation, built Genesis, Jiminy, Flightmare, and GVBD Voxels, and invented the IPC algorithm. We built cross-platform GPU compilers VeriGPU, DeepCL, Coriander, and the original PyTorch, and industry-leading rendering engines at Epic, Unity, and Google. We also spearheaded the first multimodal foundation models at Mistral AI and Apple Intelligence. Now, we’ve come together at Genesis AI to close the loop, and build what’s next. Join us → genesis-ai.company/join-us