Overview
Physical Intelligence is a pioneering AI robotics company founded in 2024 by world-renowned experts from Google DeepMind, Stanford University, and UC Berkeley. The company’s mission is to develop foundation models that can control any robot to perform any task, bringing general-purpose artificial intelligence into the physical world. Physical Intelligence has created π0 (pi-zero), the first generalist robotic foundation model capable of controlling diverse robot platforms across multiple tasks including folding laundry, assembling boxes, bussing tables, and making coffee. The company combines large-scale multi-task and multi-robot data collection with novel network architectures built on vision-language models. In November 2025, Physical Intelligence raised $600 million at a $5.6 billion valuation, led by Google’s CapitalG, with participation from Jeff Bezos, Thrive Capital, Lux Capital, and other leading investors.
Products & Technology
- π0 (pi-zero): First generalist robot foundation model for multi-task, multi-robot control.
- π0.5: Extended model enabling open-world generalization for mobile manipulators.
- openpi: Open-source release of π0 code and weights on GitHub.
- π0-FAST: Autoregressive model with improved language-following capabilities.
- Knowledge Insulation: Methods to train VLAs that generalize better.
- Reinforcement Learning Integration: Training policies to improve task success rates.
2024-2025 Highlights
- Raised $600M at $5.6B valuation led by CapitalG (Nov 2025).
- Launched π0 foundation model for general-purpose robot control (Oct 2024).
- Open-sourced π0 model with code and weights (Feb 2025).
- Demonstrated breakthrough tasks: laundry folding, box assembly, table bussing.
- Raised $400M Series A led by Jeff Bezos, Thrive, and Lux Capital (Nov 2024).
- Introduced π0.5 with mobile manipulator capabilities.
- Built training infrastructure across 7 different robot platforms.
- Achieved industry-leading dexterity in robotic manipulation tasks.
Funding Rounds
| Announced | Money Raised | Round | Valuation | Investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 20 2025 | $600M | Series B | $5.6B | CapitalG, Jeff Bezos, Thrive Capital, Lux Capital, Index Ventures, T. Rowe Price |
| Nov 04 2024 | $400M | Series A | $2.4B | Jeff Bezos, Thrive Capital, Lux Capital, Bond |
| Mar 12 2024 | $70M | Seed | N/A | Thrive Capital, Khosla Ventures, Lux Capital, OpenAI, Sequoia Capital, Redpoint Ventures |