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Physical Intelligence

Physical Intelligence, also written π, is a robot AI company that builds general-purpose vision-language-action models for robots. It released the π0 model in October 2024 and open-sourced it in February 2025, followed by π0.5 and π0.7. In October 2026 it opened a Pi API beta for fine-tuning and hosting its models for outside robot makers.

Last reviewed 28 Oct 2026

Facts at a glance

TypeDeveloper of robot foundation models
First modelπ0, announced 31 October 2024 source
Open sourceπ0 and π0.5 weights in the openpi repository; π0 open-sourced 4 February 2025 source
Latest named modelπ0.7, announced 16 April 2026 source
Pi API betaData upload, managed fine-tuning and hosted inference; launched 13 October 2026 with a waitlist source

Questions people ask

What is the Pi API?
A beta service announced on 13 October 2026 that lets robot makers upload data, fine-tune Physical Intelligence's latest model on managed compute and run it through a hosted gateway.
Are Physical Intelligence models open source?
π0 and π0.5 are available in the openpi GitHub repository. The model behind the Pi API is not named.