Physical Intelligence

Physical Intelligence (Pi) is building foundation models for robotics — AI systems that can control any robot body to perform physical tasks in the real world, much like how LLMs can handle any language task. Founded by a team of world-class robotics researchers from Google DeepMind, Stanford, and other top labs, the company raised $400M at a $2.4B valuation in one of the largest seed rounds in AI history.

The company's approach aims to create a single 'brain' that works across different robot form factors — arms, hands, legs, wheels — learning general physical intelligence that transfers across tasks and embodiments. This contrasts with traditional robotics where each robot is programmed for specific tasks.

Physical Intelligence represents the convergence of large-scale AI training (the approach that created LLMs) with robotics, potentially enabling robots that can learn new physical tasks as flexibly as ChatGPT handles new language tasks.