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Physical Intelligence

Physical Intelligence builds general-purpose AI foundation models, including π0, that aim to let robots understand and carry out physical tasks across many different robot hardware platforms.

DirectRobotics & physical AI
What it does

Physical Intelligence builds general-purpose AI foundation models, including π0, that aim to let robots understand and carry out physical tasks across many different robot hardware platforms.

Why it matters

Physical Intelligence is among the best-funded labs pursuing a 'foundation model for robotics' approach, aiming to give many different robot bodies a shared, general-purpose AI 'brain' instead of task-specific programming.

How it makes money

Physical Intelligence has not disclosed a commercial product or pricing; it is currently funded by venture investment rather than product revenue.

Geography

United States (San Francisco, California)

AI stack position

Robotics, autonomous systems and physical AI. Companies bringing AI into the physical world: self-driving cars, humanoid robots, drones and factory automation. This is often called "physical AI." Open the robotics lens.

Competitors

Connections (3)

Every connection below is tied to a readable source, date, classification and statement of its limits. A company source establishes what that company stated; it does not necessarily provide independent confirmation.

Current relationships (1)

Physical Intelligence released its π0 robot foundation model through Hugging Face
Publishes throughCurrent
Physical Intelligence's π0 and π0-FAST robot foundation models were ported into Hugging Face's open-source LeRobot framework and published on the Hugging Face model hub on February 4, 2025.

Source: 2025-02-04 · reviewed 2026-09-20

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Published February 2025; models remain available

Limits: This shows model distribution through Hugging Face's platform, not a financial, investment or exclusive commercial relationship between the two companies.

π0 and π0-FAST: Vision-Language-Action Models for General Robot Control ↗

Dated or announced (1)

OpenAI co-led an investment in Physical Intelligence
Invested inDated / announced
OpenAI participated alongside Jeff Bezos in a $400 million funding round for Physical Intelligence announced in November 2024 that valued the robotics-AI startup at $2.4 billion.

Source: 2024-11-04 · reviewed 2026-09-20

Evidence: Secondary reporting of an on-record executive statement · Completed funding round, November 2024

Limits: The source does not disclose OpenAI's exact investment amount within the $400 million round, resulting ownership percentage, or any product/technology integration between the two companies.

Jeff Bezos and OpenAI invest in robot startup Physical Intelligence at $2.4 billion valuation ↗

Comparisons (1)

Physical Intelligence competes with in robot-intelligence software Figure AI
Competes withComparison only
Physical Intelligence and Figure AI both develop general-purpose AI models intended to let robots perform varied physical tasks, placing them in the same emerging robot-foundation-model category.

Source: Source undated · reviewed 2026-09-20

Evidence: Analytical comparison · Ongoing market competition

Limits: This is a market-category comparison; Figure AI builds its own hardware and an in-house model while Physical Intelligence is primarily a software/model company that partners with multiple hardware makers, so overlap is partial.

Physical AI: The Investment Case for Robotics in 2026 ↗

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