Physical Intelligence is a robotics software startup dedicated to developing general-purpose foundation models that act as the “brains” of robots. Distinct from text-based chatbots, the company focuses on embodied AI that can perceive the physical world through visual data and other modalities. Physical Intelligence aims to create a universal system capable of powering any robot for any application, moving beyond single-task machines to create robots that can adapt to messy, complex environments using reinforcement learning and vision AI.
Physical Intelligence has raised $600 million in a new round of funding, bringing the company’s valuation to $5.6 billion. The round was led by CapitalG, with participation from Lux Capital, Thrive Capital, Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos, Index Ventures, and T. Rowe Price.
Physical Intelligence, headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States, was founded in 2024 by Karol Hausman, Adnan Esmail, Brian Ichter, Lachy Groom, Quan Vuong, and Sergey Levine. In 2024, the company joined the unicorn club. This significant capital injection is expected to fuel the high costs associated with gathering large-scale, real-world data required to train models that enable robots to perform tasks like folding laundry or busing tables.
