Faraday Future Founder and Co-CEO YT Jia Shares Weekly Investor Update: Announces First Batch of EAI Robotics Deliveries During Ceremony on Feb. 27, Marks First U.S. “EAI Robot & Vehicle + Vacation Rental” Deployment

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The first batch of the Company’s robots were delivered to Golden Hills Investment LLC, a Florida-based high-end vacation rental investor and operator held at a ceremony in Los Angeles on Feb. 27 and marks a unique usage through a “EAI Robot & Vehicle + Airbnb Operator” commercial application.
In the first delivery month, FF will focus on refining four priority scenarios: home-sharing short rental operators, premium restaurants, high-end hotels, and automotive dealerships. The shipping target is 20 EAI robots in March, and 200 EAI robots for the first delivery season of 2026.

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc. (NASDAQ: FFAI) (“Faraday Future”, “FF” or the “Company”), a California-based global Embodied AI (EAI) ecosystem company, today shared a weekly business update from YT Jia, Founder and Global Co-CEO of FF.

Faraday Future announced that the first batch of the Company’s robots were delivered to Golden Hills Investment LLC, a Florida-based high-end vacation rental investor and operator - held at a ceremony in Los Angeles on Feb. 27, and marks a unique usage through a “EAI Robot & Vehicle + Airbnb Operator” commercial application.

“Today’s weekly report marks a historic milestone in turning FF’s EAI Robotics into true delivery phase. With the first EAI robot delivery season kicking off last Friday, we are delivering on our promise: Launch is sales, sales is delivery. We have also successfully entered a blue-ocean market: premium Airbnb home-sharing rentals, creating a breakthrough into a massive industry—and launching the innovative ‘Robot + Vehicle + Airbnb Operator’ real-world use case.

Two days ago, we delivered our first batch of robots to Golden Hill, a premium Airbnb property operator in Florida and Nevada, and based on our sales contract: 2 Master Ultra units, and 4 Aegis units for pilot delivery—including two Aegis Pro and two Aegis Ultra. Our humanoid EAI robots, Futurist and Master, have already passed compliance certification. Once Aegis completes compliance certification, targeted by the end of March, the four Aegis units delivered in this early pilot will be converted into formal deliveries.

This marks FF’s launch of our first EAI robot delivery season in 2026. In the first delivery month, we will focus on refining four priority scenarios: home-sharing short rental operators, premium restaurants, high-end hotels, and automotive dealerships. Our shipping target is 20 EAI robots in March, and 200 EAI robots for the first delivery season. For the two delivery seasons in the second half of the year, we will ramp up deliveries based on scenario-specific demand.

As a key use case within our ‘6-3-3 Industry Applications and Practical Values’ framework, the premium short rental scenario is the first to go live. Starting with the high-value, high-interaction short vacation rental industry, our EAI robots will begin creating practical value in the real world.

This delivery marks FF’s successful execution milestone, making us the first company to deliver humanoid robots and pre-deliver bionic robots in the U.S. market. Next, through continued deliveries, capacity ramp-up, and use case expansion, we will turn our first-mover advantage into a scale advantage—driving a flywheel of large-scale data collection and training, stronger product capability, and growing sales volume, and ultimately converting that into a sustained leadership position.

This delivery also represents the first real-world rollout of our Three-in-One FF EAI Robotics eco-strategy. We are delivering not only EAI devices, but a complete EAI ecosystem—including three categories of products and services: EAI devices, the EAI Brain & open-source and open developer platform, and EAI decentralized data factory nodes.

This has major value and significance for users, customers, industry partners, and FF: First, for users, the FF Robotics EAI device will serve throughout the entire stay as a true All-Ability EAI concierge & companion. It can deliver high-frequency, practical functions such as room tours, service communication during check-in, checkout and reminders, as well as educational and knowledge-based interaction with guests—significantly enhancing efficiency and service value. At the same time, in settings that call for a lively atmosphere, interactive companionship, and emotional connection, it creates social and entertainment value—achieving a balance between providing practical and emotional benefits. Very soon, we will step into premium vacation-rentals to demonstrate on-site the real-world deployment of this innovative use case—fully showcasing how EAI robots release capability and create value in live commercial environments.

For users who choose to become developers, the EAI robot is also a co-sharing platform. During their stay, users can personalize the system based on their own needs—building exclusive Agents and customized Skills Packages. Through FF’s open-source and open developer platform, they can also participate in global, cross-industry secondary development—jointly driving the continuous evolution of EAI.

Under strict privacy compliance and security mechanisms, user behavior data will flow through the EAI decentralized data factory to continuously optimize service experience—accumulating more precise and personalized scenario capabilities. Every real-world use is a real data collection and training event; every interaction node makes the robot understand the user better.

Second, for customers, EAI robots bring multi-dimensional value enablement: 1. Creating ‘robot-themed vacation rentals.’ This generates strong social-media virality and topic momentum, driving both traffic growth and pricing power, while reducing service costs and increasing operational efficiency and service value. 2. Through adding a 2C shared rental business model for EAI robots, operators can upgrade from ‘shared vacation rentals’ to ‘shared vacation rentals + shared robots,’ achieving a systematic upgrade of value proposition, service offering, and business model.

To serve guests that are also developers, vacation rental operators can customize differentiated EAI device and functional modules around specific themes, and cooperate with FF on building Skills. When newly developed Skills are successfully commercialized and deployed, both parties can share profits according to agreed terms—forming a sustainable, iterative, revenue-sharing ecosystem partnership.

Data generated in real-world scenarios is a critical digital asset. Guest-developers can leverage the decentralized data factory to collect and analyze data, optimize service models, and participate in data value sharing under the ecosystem framework.

Third, for FF, as EAI robots continue to be delivered in more practical scenarios, we will form a closed loop of ‘delivery-use-data-evolution.’ This will accelerate iteration and upgrading of the EAI Brain, while enabling the decentralized data factory to continuously accumulate higher-value real-world data—driving the Three-in-One ecosystem into a powerful flywheel effect.

In the future, FF EAI robots will become increasingly present in real-world settings—and we look forward to having you with us as we mark each milestone delivery.

Regarding Super One’s progress of production and delivery, I will see you and update you next week!”

ABOUT FARADAY FUTURE

Faraday Future is a California-based global intelligent Company founded in 2014 and is dedicated to reshaping the future of mobility through vehicle electrification, intelligent technologies, and AI innovation. Its flagship vehicle, the FF 91, began deliveries in 2023 and reflects the brand’s pursuit of ultra-luxury, cutting-edge technology, and high performance. FF’s second brand, FX, targets the high-volume mainstream vehicle market. Its first model, Super One, is positioned as a first-class EAI-MPV, with deliveries planned to begin in 2026. FF recently announced its entry into the Embodied AI Robotics business with sales beginning this year, connecting its future strategy of bringing a new era of EAI vehicles and EAI robotics. For more information, please visit https://www.ff.com/

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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 and robotics deliveries, 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, that may affect actual results or outcomes include, among others: demand for our robotics products; competition in the robotics industry, which includes companies with far superior experience, funding and name recognition; our reliance on a single OEM for most of our robotics products; our 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; demand from automobile dealers for robotics products; 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; 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 the timing of these development programs; the Company’s estimates of the size of the markets for its vehicles 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 cover future warranty claims; 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 which 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 filed with the SEC on March 31, 2025, and Form 10-Qs for the quarters ended June 30, 2025 and September 30, 2025 filed with the SEC on May 9, 2025, August 19, 2025 and November 21, 2025, respectively, and other documents filed by the Company from time to time with the SEC.