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▶ 36:51 · $PHYSICAL-INTELLIGENCE · Physical Intelligence open-sources Pi Zero foundation model to enable Cambrian explosion in robotics
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Y Combinator

The GPT Moment for Robotics Is Here

2026-04-16 · 3 company · 4 thematic
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qiong wang

Co-founder of Physical Intelligence (Pi), a robotics AI lab building general-purpose foundation models for cross-embodiment robot control. Previously worked on robotics at Google (RT-2, Palm-E, Open X-Embodiment). Leads a 6-person founding team including Brian, Chelsea, Sergey, Lucky, and Adnan.

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“We open source Pi zero and Pi 05 and people were so shocked when they asked me, you know, is there any difference between Pi zero and Pi 05 that you open source versus the model that we use internally Pi zero and Pi 05 and the answer was a…”
—qiong wang
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