# Physical Intelligence opens an API beta for training and running its robot models

Canonical page: https://technooptimist.io/stories/physical-intelligence-opens-an-api-beta-for-training-and-running-its-bccab0c1
Date: 14 Oct 2026
About: [Physical Intelligence](https://technooptimist.io/companies/physical-intelligence.md) · [π model family](https://technooptimist.io/robotics/pi-models.md)
Original source: https://www.humanoidsdaily.com/news/physical-intelligence-api-beta-robot-training-inference

Physical Intelligence has opened an API beta that lets developers fine-tune its robot models on the company's infrastructure and run them through hosted inference. Access is by application, and teams are onboarded in batches while the company starts small.

## Key facts

- Teams can upload demonstrations, train a policy, test it on their hardware and collect more data around failures.
- The application asks about robot setup, training experience, teleoperation or simulation data, and the task success criteria.
- It also asks whether inference must run in the cloud, locally or both; the article notes that the question does not confirm local deployment is available.
- Pricing and usage limits are not stated in the article.

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