General Instinct joins Y Combinator Spring 2026
General Instinct entered Y Combinator Spring 2026 to build deployment infrastructure for physical AI on constrained edge hardware.
Evidence notes
- The active Spring 2026 company was founded in San Francisco in 2026.
- Its Instinct Edge platform distills and quantizes large models for Jetson, mobile NPU, ARM and Apple hardware.
- A disclosed Jetson Orin NX deployment achieved a 111-millisecond cold start and kept every decision within 150 milliseconds without cloud calls.
Company context
General Instinct builds an edge deployment layer for physical-AI systems. The company focuses on distillation, quantization, and deployment workflows that make large frontier models fit on constrained robot, drone, and edge-device hardware.