Startup Generalist is betting that the robotics industry will soon hit its “ChatGPT moment.”

Most autonomous robots struggle outside of carefully defined tasks, which has blocked mainstream adoption of the tech. But Generalist, which raised $140 million at a $440 million valuation last year, released a new model that CEO Pete Florence says can help its robots do something critical: improvise.

The idea is to treat robots like a large language model rather than custom machinery. “What’s happening now with robotics parallels when people opened GPT-3 and asked it to write a completely new limerick,” he told Forbes. “To achieve that, you need an improvisational level of intelligence.”

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