Physical Intelligence
USA · Private
SF-based startup building a general-purpose Vision-Language-Action (VLA) foundation model, π0, that can control any robot platform without per-robot retraining. Focused on the 'brain' layer rather than hardware.
- Country
- USA
- Founded
- 2024
- Ticker
- Private
- Total funding
- $420M raised
- Latest round
- Seed + Series A — $400M (2024, led by a16z)
Products
- π0 (VLA model)
- π0.5
Physical Intelligence coverage
- Physical Intelligence Eyes $1B Raise at Over $11B Valuation — Physical Intelligence is in early talks for a roughly $1 billion funding round that could value the San Francisco startup above $11 billion. The move nearly dou
- Pi0.7 and Helix: VLA Transformers Advance Zero-Shot Dexterous Manipulation — Physical Intelligence's π₀.7 (April 2026) and Figure AI's Helix (February 2025) represent state-of-the-art Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, achieving open-w
- OpenVLA 7B Advances Zero-Shot VLA Control Over RT-2 — OpenVLA's 7B-parameter Transformer delivers superior zero-shot generalization on LIBERO benchmarks compared to RT-2-X while enabling high-frequency neural feedb
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