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Every AI Supply Chain Brief story tagged “AI adoption”, newest first (2).

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Physical Intelligence opens its robot models to outside developers

Physical Intelligence launched a waitlisted beta of its Pi API on October 13. Teams upload their own robot data, fine-tune the company's general-purpose models on its managed infrastructure, and run them through a hosted service. Robots-as-a-service provider Formic, which says 150 factories use its robots, is an early partner. The company noted that network connectivity was a challenge in some early cloud-run deployments.

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So whatGeneral-purpose robot AI is becoming something you rent, not build.

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Practitioner tip: "boring AI" is the procurement win

A procurement practitioner described the most useful AI agent job in a single line: read supplier offers, compare them with your requirements, and flag what's missing. It's a narrow, checkable task, as opposed to an autonomous buyer.

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So whatStart with bid comparison and gap-finding on RFQ responses: a narrow task you can check.

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