{"version":1,"type":"story","url":"https://digestai.news/story/physical-intelligence-announces-pi-api-beta-for-robotic-foundation-mod","json":"https://digestai.news/story/physical-intelligence-announces-pi-api-beta-for-robotic-foundation-mod.json","markdown":"https://digestai.news/story/physical-intelligence-announces-pi-api-beta-for-robotic-foundation-mod.md","slug":"physical-intelligence-announces-pi-api-beta-for-robotic-foundation-mod","headline":"Physical Intelligence announces pi API beta for robotic foundation models","summary":"Physical Intelligence opened a beta for its Pi API on October 13, 2026, letting external developers fine‑tune and run inference on its robotic foundation models. The beta is accessed through a waitlist where applicants describe their intended projects. Developers upload robot data, launch fine‑tuning on compute managed by Physical Intelligence, and then use a hosted gateway to run inference on their robots.\n\nThe API currently exposes three models: π0, a flow‑based vision‑language‑action model; π0‑FAST, an autoregressive model that uses the FAST action tokenizer; and π0.5, an upgraded version with better open‑world generalization trained with knowledge insulation. Base checkpoints are pre‑trained on more than 10,000 hours of robot data and are released under an Apache‑2.0 license. Running the open models locally requires an NVIDIA GPU with more than 8 GB of memory for inference and more than 70 GB for full fine‑tuning.\n\nPhysical Intelligence highlighted early deployments with partners such as Actor, AgRobotics, CloudChef, Ultra, and Weave. The company also gave early access to the API to a small group of firms, including Almond’s Axol robot, which deburred spacers after four days of iteration. The company said the examples show the models can be used for real applications, but the effort remains early and developers’ feedback will shape future releases.","keyPoints":["Pi API beta launched Oct 13, 2026, allowing hosted fine‑tuning and inference on robotic foundation models.","Three models—π0, π0‑FAST, π0.5—are available, pre‑trained on >10,000 hours of robot data.","Early deployments include Actor, AgRobotics, CloudChef, Ultra, Weave, and Almond’s Axol robot."],"whyItMatters":"The beta gives developers a ready‑made platform to adapt robotic foundation models to new tasks, reducing data and compute needs. By enabling rapid iteration and real‑world testing, it could accelerate the deployment of autonomous robots across industries, from heavy machinery to dairy and manufacturing.","category":{"slug":"agents","name":"Agents & Tools","url":"https://digestai.news/category/agents"},"entities":{"companies":["Physical Intelligence","Actor","AgRobotics","CloudChef","Ultra","Weave"],"models":["π0","π0-FAST","π0.5"],"people":[]},"firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-13T23:09:21Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-13T23:09:21Z","sourceCount":1,"hasPrimarySource":false,"sources":[{"outlet":"Unite.AI","title":"Physical Intelligence Opens Pi API Beta for Robot Foundation Models","url":"https://unite.ai/physical-intelligence-opens-pi-api-beta-for-robot-foundation-models","publishedAt":"2026-10-13T23:09:21Z","type":"press","primary":false,"lead":true}],"sourceNotes":null,"discussions":[],"thread":null,"cite":{"text":"Digest AI, \"Physical Intelligence announces pi API beta for robotic foundation models\", 13 October 2026, https://digestai.news/story/physical-intelligence-announces-pi-api-beta-for-robotic-foundation-mod","publisher":"Digest AI","title":"Physical Intelligence announces pi API beta for robotic foundation models","datePublished":"2026-10-13T23:09:21Z","url":"https://digestai.news/story/physical-intelligence-announces-pi-api-beta-for-robotic-foundation-mod"},"generatedBy":"Written by Digest AI's editorial model from the linked sources; the sources are the record.","license":"Headlines, digests and key points are written by Digest AI and may be quoted with a link to the story page. Linked articles belong to their publishers. Terms: https://digestai.news/terms#reuse"}