# General Instinct

[General Instinct on Hacklab](https://hacklab.so/org/general-instinct)

Startup · 2 people on Hacklab

## Links

- [Website](https://general-instinct.com/)
- [Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/general-instinct)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/general-instinct/)
- [X](https://x.com/gen_Instinct)

## About

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## YC company profile

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.

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/zhandong-jiao) · [X](https://x.com/BillJiao930)

### 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.

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/guanming-wang) · [X](https://x.com/Guanming717)

[Source: Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/general-instinct) · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.

## Current staff

- [Bill Jiao](https://hacklab.so/bill-jiao) — Founder/CEO (Present)
- [Guanming Wang](https://hacklab.so/guanming-wang) — Founder/CTO (Present)