LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 14, 2026--
Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc. (Nasdaq: FFAI) ("FF", "Faraday Future", or the "Company"), a California-based global Embodied AI (EAI) ecosystem company, today announced financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2026, and provided updates on key operational and strategic developments.
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“The first quarter of 2026 marked a pivotal transition for our business as our Three-in-One EAI ecosystem strategy began forming a tangible commercial closed loop,” said YT Jia, Global CEO of Faraday Future. “We have officially upgraded our positioning to become a physical AI ecosystem company. By achieving scaled delivery of humanoid and bionic EAI robot terminals, generating positive single-product gross margins, we are rapidly converting our first-mover advantage into sustained competitive leadership.”
Jia added: “Looking ahead, we will fully implement the Strategy and our industrial bridge strategy. Our priorities are building a robotics ecosystem-driven revenue base, focusing on humanoid and bionic robots, with automotive robots serving as a complementary focus, and achieving a clear path toward sustainable profitability. We will also continue advancing our long-term ecosystem of ‘Device, Data, and Brain & Open-Source and Open Developer Platform.’ With the full return of the founding team, launching and executing our upgraded set of transformation initiatives, we are positioned to drive long-term value creation, rebuild capital market trust and confidence, and enter the firm’s next phase of growth.”
FIRST QUARTER 2026 HIGHLIGHTS
Robotics Delivering Early Validation as a High-Margin, Capital-Efficient Growth Engine
The Company’s EAI Robotics business reached a key inflection point in the first quarter of 2026, generating initial sales revenue and positive product gross margin while establishing a foundation for scaled deployment. As of April 30, 2026, FF had shipped 68 EAI robots, and May shipments are expected to continue accelerating as the Company progresses toward its first shipment quarter target of 200 units. The Company expects cumulative shipments to exceed 1,500 EAI robots in 2026.
This momentum is being supported by continued expansion of the Company’s EAI Robotics strategy, including education-focused use cases, broader ecosystem development and more than 1,200 non-binding, paid pre-orders at launch. FF believes EAI Robotics provides a capital-efficient pathway to support near-term commercialization, cash flow generation and long-term EAI ecosystem expansion.
On the compliance front, following the earlier certifications of the Futurist and Master humanoid robots, the FX Aegis quadruped completed its full compliance certification in the United States. As a result, all FX Aegis robots delivered to date can now be converted to formal deliveries, supporting the Company’s continued expansion in the U.S. EAI Robotics market.
Unified EAI Strategy Driving Ecosystem Value
The Company continued to advance its Three-in-One EAI ecosystem strategy, integrating EAI devices with the EAI Brain, Open Source and Open Developer Platform capabilities, and the EAI Data Factory. During the quarter and subsequent period, FF launched its developer portal, advanced Open Claw as a key component of its open developer platform and began applying these capabilities across FF EAI robots.
The Data Factory Business Unit signed its first sales order in early May. The Data Factory continues to build capabilities for efficient, large-scale data collection, and structured processing, transforming low-cost raw data from real-world deployments into high-quality training data through advanced post-processing.
Strengthened Governance and System Building
To drive the “AI First” philosophy, the Company completely upgraded its internal AI governance from “PPTIA” to “AI-PPTI.” This framework transitions AI from an auxiliary tool to key infrastructure, reconstructing organizational processes to use AI agents for data-driven operations and decision making.
Organizationally, the Company continued to strengthen its leadership structure, operating infrastructure, and EAI education ecosystem. The Board has acknowledged and appointed FF Founder YT Jia as Global CEO and Jerry Wang as Global Executive Chairman. The Board has also accepted Matthias Aydt’s resignation as Global Co-CEO and appointed independent director Chad Chen as Lead Independent Director.
This leadership transition represents a significant organizational and governance change for the Company marking the full return of the founding team and founder-driven entrepreneurial spirit at both the Board and core management levels, and represents a key step in deepening the execution of the Company’s EAI strategy, creating long-term value for stockholders, and further reinforcing the Company’s guiding principle of putting stockholders first.
To support its next stage of growth, the Company relocated its headquarters to El Segundo, CA, also known as Silicon Beach, enhancing access to senior talent and reinforcing its position within a leading technology and innovation hub. FF also established a dedicated Education Ecosystem Product Line to support the development and scaled deployment of its EAI robotics education system. In April, California State Treasurer Fiona Ma joined the unveiling of the FF EAI Robotics Education & Innovation Lab, supporting the Company’s broader efforts to expand EAI education use cases and engage with government, education and industry partners.
Regulatory Clarity Achieved and Capital Structure Strengthened
On March 18 th, the SEC officially concluded its investigation of over four years without taking any penalties or legal action against the Company or its leadership, removing a major historical overhang.
The Company leveraged this momentum to improve its capital position. The Company successfully secured $45 million in new financing from American institutional investors. Additionally, FF revised an agreement with an AIXC-designated third party to secure a $12 million subscription, replacing anti-dilution clauses with fixed obligations linked to operation milestones. Looking forward, FF remains fully committed to taking all necessary measures to satisfy Nasdaq’s minimum bid price compliance requirement during its 180-day grace period.
RESULTS FOR FIRST QUARTER 2026
2026 OUTLOOK
Looking ahead, 2026 is expected to mark an important transition year for Faraday Future as the Company advances from initial EAI Robotics commercialization toward broader scaling of its Three-in-One EAI ecosystem strategy. The Company’s priorities are focused on increasing EAI robot deliveries, expanding education-driven use cases, improving operating cash flow and further validating the integrated Device-Data-Brain model across EAI Robotics and EAI Vehicles.
EAI Robotics: Scaling a Capital-Efficient Commercial Platform
The Company expects EAI Robotics to be its primary near-term commercialization priority in 2026. FF is targeting cumulative shipments of more than 1,500 EAI robots by year-end, with education expected to serve as the initial entry point for scaled deployment. Over time, the Company plans to expand into universities, research institutions, vocational education systems and additional high-value use cases, including security, inspection and other enterprise applications.
From a product perspective, FF expects to initially prioritize humanoid robotics while progressively expanding into quadruped robotics and other intelligent form factors. This phased approach is intended to support real-world validation, refine products within defined use cases, establish repeatable deployment models, and develop standardized solutions that can scale over time.
Building on positive product gross margin achieved in early deliveries, the Company intends to continue improving product economics through increased scale, supply chain efficiency, and ongoing product iteration. Given the lower capital requirements of robotics relative to the automotive business, FF believes EAI Robotics can support near-term revenue generation, operating cash flow improvement, and broader EAI ecosystem development.
Three-in-One EAI Ecosystem: Connecting Devices, Brain and Data
The Company’s EAI Robotics strategy is expected to further validate its Three-in-One EAI ecosystem, which integrates EAI Devices, the EAI Brain and Open Platform, and the EAI Data Factory. As more EAI robots are deployed across education and enterprise environments, FF expects to generate real-world data that can support model training, product optimization and continuous improvement in user experience.
This feedback loop is central to the Company’s Device-Data-Brain architecture. Increased device deployment is expected to generate data, data improves the AI system, improved AI capabilities enhance product utility and stronger product performance supports further adoption. Over time, FF believes this closed-loop model can support broader commercialization opportunities beyond hardware sales, including software, data applications and ecosystem partnerships.
The Company believes education is expected to become the largest initial application scenario in the consumer-facing robotics market. Strategic collaboration with educational institutions, research organizations and vocational education partners is expected to play an important role in this ecosystem. These partnerships are intended to support talent development, technology innovation, application deployment and the development of a broader EAI robotics education market.
EAI Automotive Robots: Advancing FX Super One with Capital Discipline
In automotive robots (EAI Vehicles), the Company will continue advancing FX Super One while maintaining a disciplined approach to capital deployment and production ramp up. Based on strategic cooperation with its bridge strategy partner, FF plans to upgrade FX Super One to a more competitive 800V architecture or accelerate the AIHER project, while pausing the original Super One 400V cooperation project.
This approach is intended to improve product competitiveness, reduce near-term cash outflows and better align vehicle execution with capital availability, operational readiness and long-term stockholder value creation. The Company expects EAI Vehicles to remain an important component of its broader EAI strategy, while EAI Robotics provides a more capital-efficient pathway for near-term commercialization and ecosystem validation.
Capital Strategy: Restoring Market Confidence and Improving Financing Efficiency
From an operating and financial perspective, the Company is focused on strengthening revenue recognition, budgeting, cost management and monthly operating review processes to support robotics-driven revenue realization, improve margin visibility and enhance cash flow discipline.
From a capital perspective, FF is shifting toward a longer-term, value-oriented capital structure. The Company intends to strengthen investor communication, reduce reliance on high-cost short-term financing channels and continue engaging strategic and institutional investors with the objective of improving financing efficiency, dilution efficiency and financial flexibility over time.
Long-Term Positioning
FF is officially evolving into a U.S.-based Physical AI company, focusing on two product engines: Embodied AI (EAI) humanoid and bionic robots, and EAI automotive robots. By building a “Three-in-One ecosystem” of “Device, Data, and Brain & Open-Source and Open Platform,” the Company aims to create an evolutionary flywheel of “scaled device delivery, data collection and training, continuous evolution of the EAI Brain, stronger product capability, and larger-scale delivery”, with the goal of maximizing commercial value.
EARNINGS WEBCAST
Faraday Future management will host a webcast today, May 14, 2026, at 7:30 p.m. Eastern time (4:30 p.m. Pacific time). Interested investors and other parties can listen to a webcast of the conference call by logging onto the Investor Relations section of the Company's website at https://investors.ff.com/. A replay of the webcast will be available on the Company's website shortly thereafter. More detail on FF’s 2026 Q1 earnings, when filed, can be found in our SEC filings and online at https://investors.ff.com/financial-information/sec-filings.
ABOUT FARADAY FUTURE
Founded in 2014, Faraday Future (FF) is a U.S.-based Physical AI ecosystem company dedicated to reshaping the future of robotics and mobility solutions through AI innovation and technologies. FF focuses on two major product strategies within the Embodied AI (EAI) robotics business: EAI humanoid and bionic robots, and EAI automotive-focused robots. By building a Three-in-One ecosystem of “Device, Data, EAI Brain & Open-Source and Open Platform,” FF aims to create an evolutionary flywheel: scaled device delivery, data collection and training, continuous evolution of the EAI Brain, stronger product capability, and even larger-scale delivery and deployment. Through this flywheel, FF seeks to maximize its commercial value and lead to the advancement of Physical AI. For more information, please visit Faraday Future’s official website: https://www.ff.com/
FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS
This press release includes “forward looking statements” within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. When used in this press release, the words “plan to,” “can,” “will,” “should,” “future,” “potential,” and variations of these words or similar expressions (or the negative versions of such words or expressions) are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements, which include statements regarding FF’s entry into the embodied AI robotics market, involve a number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other important factors, many of which are outside the Company’s control, which could cause actual results or outcomes to differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements.
Important factors, among others, that may affect actual results or outcomes include, among others: the Company’s ability to maintain its listing on Nasdaq; the availability of sufficient share capital to execute on its strategy, which the Company currently lacks; the agreement of stockholders to substantially increase the Company’s share capital, which could result in substantial additional dilution; the Company’s ability to homologate FX vehicles for sale; the Company’s ability to secure the necessary funding to execute on the FX strategy, which will be substantial; demand for the Super One; demand for the Company’s robotics products; competition in the robotics industry, which includes companies with far superior experience, funding and name recognition; the Company’s reliance on a single OEM for most of its robotics products; the Company’s ability to get the planned robotics products to comply with all applicable U.S. rules and regulations; the ability of the robotics OEM to timely supply robotics to the Company; tariff uncertainty for imported products, particularly from China; the ability of the U.S. Department of Commerce to review, condition, or prohibit robotics-related transactions with a China OEM; demand from automobile dealers for robotics products; the Company’s ability to maintain its listing on Nasdaq; the Company’s ability to timely regain compliance with Nasdaq’s $1.00 minimum bid price requirement; that the Company’s common stock will be suspended from trading on Nasdaq if the closing price of its Class A common stock is $0.10 or less for 10 consecutive trading days; the availability of sufficient share capital to execute on its strategy, which the Company currently lacks; the agreement of stockholders to substantially increase the Company’s share capital, which could result in substantial additional dilution; the ability to secure the necessary agreements to upgrade the Super One to an 800V architecture or to develop the AIHER model, none of which have been finalized; the Company’s ability to design and develop AIHER technology; the Company’s ability to secure financing for the 800V architecture of the Super One; the Company’s ability to secure an occupancy certificate for its Hanford facility; the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern and improve its liquidity and financial position; the Company’s ability to pay its outstanding obligations; the Company’s ability to remediate its material weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting and the risks related to the restatement of previously issued consolidated financial statements; the Company’s limited operating history and the significant barriers to growth it faces; the Company’s history of losses and expectation of continued losses; the success of the Company’s payroll expense reduction plan; the Company’s ability to execute on its plans to develop and market its vehicles and robots and the timing of these development programs; the Company’s estimates of the size of the markets for its vehicles and robots and cost to bring those vehicles to market; the rate and degree of market acceptance of the Company’s vehicles; the Company’s ability to cover future warranty claims; the success of other competing manufacturers; the performance and security of the Company’s vehicles; current and potential litigation involving the Company; the Company’s ability to receive funds from, satisfy the conditions precedent of and close on the various financings described elsewhere by the Company; the result of future financing efforts, the failure of any of which could result in the Company seeking protection under the Bankruptcy Code; the Company’s indebtedness; the Company’s ability to use its “at-the-market” program; insurance coverage; general economic and market conditions impacting demand for the Company’s products; potential negative impacts of a reverse stock split; potential cost, headcount and salary reduction actions may not be sufficient or may not achieve their expected results; circumstances outside of the Company’s control, such as natural disasters, climate change, health epidemics and pandemics, terrorist attacks, and civil unrest; risks related to the Company’s operations in China; the success of the Company’s remedial measures taken in response to the Special Committee findings; the Company’s dependence on its suppliers and contract manufacturer; the Company’s ability to develop and protect its technologies; the Company’s ability to protect against cybersecurity risks; and the ability of the Company to attract and retain employees, any adverse developments in existing legal proceedings or the initiation of new legal proceedings, and volatility of the Company’s stock price. You should carefully consider the foregoing factors and the other risks and uncertainties described in the “Risk Factors” section of the Company’s Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025 filed with the SEC on March 31, 2026, and other documents filed by the Company from time to time with the SEC.
Appendix Financial Statements
Faraday Future Announces Q1 2026 Financial Results: Upgrades to a Physical AI Company, with EAI Robots Achieving Ecosystem Revenue and Positive Gross Margin, Raises 2026 Robot Shipment Target to 1,500 Units and Plans Early-June Launch of New Robot
