General Instinct

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About General Instinct

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Deployment infrastructure for Physical AI

Making robot post-training and deployment scalable.

  • YC batch: Spring 2026
  • Founded: 2026
  • Team size: 2
  • Location: San Francisco
  • Country: US
  • Status: Active
  • Industry: Industrials
  • Stage: Early
  • Tags: Robotics, AI
  • YC partner: Nicolas Dessaigne

Founders

Bill Jiao — Founder/CEO

worked on Siemens' first multimodal foundation model, secured 2 patents on tardigrade proteins as a junior in high school, now building edge intelligence for physical AI.

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Guanming Wang — Founder/CTO

Ex Google DeepMind reinforcement learning researcher with robotics research published at ICRA at age 17. Previously conducted robotics research at UCL robotics institute and Tsinghua University.

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Source: Y Combinator · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.