The Race
Foundation models for robots, scaling laws for physical AI, and the data problem no one has solved.
Chapter 11 of A Brief History of Embodied Intelligence
Language models had the internet. Robot models have almost nothing. The race is not for the best algorithm. It’s for the best data pipeline.
In November 2025, a startup called Generalist AI published a blog post with an unremarkable title: “GEN-0: Embodied Foundation Models That Scale with Physical In…
