Physical Intelligence (Pi)

One general-purpose vision-language-action foundation model that controls many robot types, trained on diverse robot data plus web knowledge, improving through deployment experience via reinforcement learning ('RECAP').

Founded
2024
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Founders
Karol Hausman, Sergey Levine, Chelsea Finn, Brian Ichter, Lachy Groom
Pushes against
Task- and robot-specific control stacks; hardware-first humanoid approaches.
Now
Reported raising about $1B at $11B+ (Bloomberg via Dealroom, 2026-03-30); closing not confirmed by a primary source. Latest model I could confirm is pi0.7 (arXiv, 2026-04-16). About 80 staff (reported).

Key people

  • Karol Hausman (CEO)
  • Sergey Levine
  • Chelsea Finn

Funding

  • March 2026 reported
    Amount
    ~$1B (Bloomberg reported talks; a secondary site says closed by 2026-10)
    Valuation
    >$11B (reported)
    Lead
    Founders Fund, with Lightspeed, Thrive, Lux (reported)
    Source dealroom.co
  • November 2025 reported
    Amount
    $600M (Bloomberg Law, 2025-11-20; a Dealroom note's $388M at $4.1B figure does not match)
    Valuation
    $5.6B (reported)
    Lead
    CapitalG (reported), with Bezos, Thrive, Lux
    Source theroboticsmedia.com

Every funding round in the atlas

What it has shipped

No launch from this lab is in the atlas yet. These come from its profile.

Sources

  1. arxiv.org/abs/2410.24164
  2. arxiv.org/abs/2504.16054
  3. arxiv.org/abs/2511.14759
  4. dealroom.co/news/127095-robot-ai-startup-physical-intelligence-seeks-1b-at-11b-valuation/
  5. theroboticsmedia.com/article/physical-intelligence-1-billion-series-11-billion-valuation-f
  6. arxiv.org/abs/2604.15483
  7. news.bloomberglaw.com/private-equity/robotics-startup-physical-intelligence-valued-at-5-6-
  8. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Intelligence_Inc.

This profile was checked and corrected against its sources on 6 October 2026. How we check