# Genesis AI — Foundation models and simulation for general-purpose robots.

Genesis AI is a physical-AI lab building a universal robotics foundation model, trained on its own ultra-fast physics simulation engine, to give general-purpose robots dexterous manipulation across everyday tasks.

Founded

2024

Headquarters

Paris, France

Category

Robotics, Foundational AI, Open Source, Hardware

Legal name

Genesis AI SAS

## Highlights

Notable milestones from Genesis AI’s journey — funding rounds, launches, and other moments worth knowing.

Launch - May 2026

### GENE-26.5 goes full-stack with a human-like robotic hand

Genesis unveiled its first robotics foundation model alongside its own dexterous, human-sized hand built with partner Wuji Tech — and a matching sensor glove to close the embodiment gap. Demos showed it cracking eggs, playing piano and solving a Rubik's cube mid-air.

**GENE-26.5 controlling Genesis's own human-sized hands to solve a Rubik's cube — part of the full-stack demo.**

[Source](https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/06/khosla-backed-robotics-startup-genesis-ai-has-gone-full-stack-demo-shows/)

Funding - Jul 2025

### $105M seed co-led by Eclipse and Khosla to build a universal robotics model

Emerging from stealth, Genesis raised one of the largest robotics seed rounds to date, co-led by Eclipse and Khosla Ventures with Bpifrance, HSG, Eric Schmidt and Xavier Niel backing a plan to unify high-fidelity simulation, generative modeling and real-robot data.

Round

Seed

Raised

$105M

Led by

Eclipse, Khosla Ventures

[Source](https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/genesis-ai-launches-with-105m-seed-funding-from-eclipse-khosla-to-build-ai-models-for-robots/)

Milestone - Dec 2024

### The simulator goes viral, topping GitHub's trending charts

Within days of release Genesis shot to the top of GitHub trending and lit up Hacker News and AI Twitter, drawing tens of thousands of stars in its first week — it has since passed 29,000 — and turning an academic project into the foundation for a venture-backed company.

[Source](https://github.com/Genesis-Embodied-AI/genesis-world)

Launch - Dec 2024

### Genesis: an open-source physics engine that runs 430,000× faster than real time

The fruit of a two-year collaboration across 20+ labs, Genesis is a pure-Python, photorealistic simulator that runs 10–80× faster than GPU stacks like Isaac Gym and can train a real-world-transferable locomotion policy in 26 seconds on a single RTX 4090 — released fully open source.

**Genesis pairs a multi-physics engine with a photorealistic renderer to generate synthetic training data at scale.**

[Source](https://github.com/Genesis-Embodied-AI/Genesis)

Team - Dec 2024

### Two Carnegie Mellon roboticists set out to build a robotics foundation model

Zhou Xian, fresh off a CMU robotics PhD, teamed with Théophile Gervet — a former research scientist at Mistral and Skild AI — and Tsun-Hsuan Wang to found Genesis AI across Paris and Palo Alto, betting that simulation, not fleets of real robots, was the fastest path to general-purpose physical intelligence.

[Source](https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/genesis-ai-launches-with-105m-seed-funding-from-eclipse-khosla-to-build-ai-models-for-robots/)