--- title: Physical Intelligence, Stripe veteran Lachy Groom’s... description: Physical Intelligence, a two-year-old robotics startup valued at $5.6 billion, is developing general-purpose foundation models for robots using... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/physical-intelligence-stripe-veteran-lachy-groom-s-latest-bet-is-building-silicon-valley-s-buzzies-5u3cz3drs twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Physical Intelligence, Stripe veteran Lachy Groom’s latest bet, is building Silicon Valley’s buzziest robot brains | daily.dev og:description: Physical Intelligence, a two-year-old robotics startup valued at $5.6 billion, is developing general-purpose foundation models for robots using... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/physical-intelligence-stripe-veteran-lachy-groom-s-latest-bet-is-building-silicon-valley-s-buzzies-5u3cz3drs og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/5u3cZ3dRS.png og:image:alt: Physical Intelligence, Stripe veteran Lachy Groom’s latest bet, is building Silicon Valley’s buzziest robot brains og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Physical Intelligence, Stripe veteran Lachy Groom’s latest bet, is building Silicon Valley’s buzziest robot brains **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 10 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Physical Intelligence, a two-year-old robotics startup valued at $5.6 billion, is developing general-purpose foundation models for robots using cross-embodiment learning. Founded by UC Berkeley and Stanford researchers alongside former Stripe employee Lachy Groom, the company has raised over $1 billion but provides no commercialization timeline to investors. Their approach focuses on training models with diverse data from various environments and hardware platforms, enabling robots to learn fundamental tasks like folding clothes and peeling vegetables. The company competes with Skild AI, which has already deployed commercially and raised $1.4 billion at a $14 billion valuation. Physical Intelligence prioritizes pure research over immediate commercial deployment, betting that this strategy will yield superior general intelligence despite the longer timeline. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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