Physical Intelligence

The company released π0, its first generalist robot policy, presenting it as a prototype general-purpose foundation model for robots.⁠[1]

The company published the code and weights of π0 in its openpi repository on GitHub, together with the autoregressive model π0-FAST and several checkpoints fine-tuned for specific robot platforms.⁠[2]

TechCrunch reported in January 2026 that the company had raised more than $1 billion in total, that investors including Khosla VenturesKhosla VenturesKhosla Ventures (KV) is an American venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, the founding CEO of Sun Microsystems, and headquartered in Menlo Park, California. It made heavy early bets on clean technology, became OpenAI’s first venture capital investor in 2019, and its portfolio also includes companies such as DoorDash, Block (formerly Square), Impossible Foods, and Rocket Lab.Open the full entry, Sequoia CapitalSequoia CapitalSequoia Capital is a venture capital firm founded by Don Valentine in 1972, investing from the seed stage through the growth stage. Its historical investments include Apple, Cisco, Google, YouTube, Airbnb, and Stripe; in 2021 it introduced the Sequoia Capital Fund structure, which can continue to hold public securities, and in 2023 its regional businesses became independent brands and partnerships.Open the full entry and Thrive Capital had valued it at $5.6 billion, and that it had about 80 employees.⁠[3]

The company released π0.7, a generalist model that can be steered with multimodal prompts, saying it can perform tasks not seen in its training data. TechCrunch noted that these were research results rather than a deployed product.⁠[4][5]

The company opened its latest models through the Pi API beta, letting developers upload data, fine-tune models on compute the company manages, and deploy cloud-hosted inference for their own robots.⁠[6]

The company’s co-founders include UC Berkeley associate professor Sergey Levine, Quan VuongQuan VuongQuan Vuong is a robot learning researcher and one of the co-founders of Physical Intelligence, a robotics foundation model company. He previously did robotics research at Google, contributed to the development of robotics transformer models including RT-1 and RT-2, and, with Pannag Sanketi, published under their bylines the cross-robot dataset Open X-Embodiment.Open the full entry, who came from Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMindGoogle DeepMind is Google’s artificial intelligence research organization, formed in April 2023 by merging DeepMind, which Google acquired in 2014, with the Brain team from Google Research, and led by CEO Demis Hassabis. It developed AlphaGo, AlphaFold, and the Gemini family of models, and Hassabis and John Jumper received the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold’s protein structure prediction work.Open the full entry, former angel investor Lachy Groom, Stanford assistant professor Chelsea Finn, and Karol Hausman, previously a staff research scientist at Google DeepMind. None of these sources gives the company’s exact founding date.⁠[3][5][7][8]

The company’s office is in San Francisco’s Mission District.⁠[9]

Physical Intelligence: Official website: https://www.pi.website/ (opens in a new window)⁠[10]

X: Official account: https://x.com/physical_int (opens in a new window)⁠[10]

GitHub: Official account: https://github.com/Physical-Intelligence (opens in a new window)⁠[2]