Physical Intelligence at CoRL 2024
Our last post about Physical Intelligence was timely; last Monday we received news that Physical Intelligence or better known as π received $400 Million in new funding at a valuation of $2.4 Billion, with Jeff Bezos and OpenAI leading the funding round. A $2.4 Billion valuation is a meteoric leap for a 8-month old company, and just shows the commercial interest in robotic foundation models. No-one is willing to be left behind the competition to dominate this space. Both Jeff Bezos and OpenAI already have heavy investments in Figure Robotics.
π also had a very strong presence in the Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL 2024) in Munich, Germany last week. CoRL is a great venue for the latest research in how robots can learn. You can find some great videos from CoRL at X.
At CoRL, Chelsea Finn from π had a talk on how the π 0 (first robotic foundation model from π ) was post trained with robotic data, while Sergey Levine had a overview talk on π 0. Sergeyβs talk is actually available onlβ¦