5Y News | Weifen Zhifei Raises Hundreds of Millions of RMB in Series A1 Funding to Accelerate R&D and Commercialization of Embodied Flight Intelligence
WeDifferential Intelligence has closed a Series A1 funding round worth several hundred million yuan.
Recently, Weifen Zhifei (Hangzhou) Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Weifen Zhifei") completed a Series A1 round of several hundred million RMB. This round was led by Huakong Investment, with new investors including Lenovo Capital and Incubator Group and CCTV Fund also participating. Existing shareholders — Luminous Ventures, 5Y Capital, Oriental Fortune Capital, Meridian Capital, SAIC's Shangqi Capital, Shenzhen Capital Group, Changshi Capital, and Baidu Venture — continued to invest, with follow-on commitments exceeding half of the total round, demonstrating sustained conviction in the company's long-term development.
The proceeds will be directed toward product R&D and technology iteration, top-tier talent acquisition, industry scenario expansion, and working capital, accelerating Weifen Zhifei's industrialization and commercialization efforts.
Building a Solid Technical Foundation, Bringing Aerial Intelligence to Every Industry
Weifen Zhifei adheres to the philosophy of "feet on the ground, eyes on the stars," with a mission to "connect flight robots to every industry and bring them into every home." The company focuses on developing aerial embodied intelligence systems and general swarm intelligence. Leveraging four core technologies — autonomous navigation, intelligent brain, efficient cerebellum, and swarm intelligence — Weifen Zhifei has launched flagship products including the autonomous exploration flight robot P300 PRO and the educational flight robot Feitu α, completely eliminating dependence on GPS, external communications, and external computing and control. These solutions have already been deployed across multiple刚需 industries including mining, forestry, power utilities, municipal management, and emergency rescue, earning multiple product certifications in 2025.
Three Technical Breakthroughs, Defining New Heights in Aerial Embodied Intelligence
In frontier technology, the company continues to advance general long-range flight task execution, end-to-end high-speed high-precision control, integrated flight manipulation, and swarm brain coordination, pushing multiple innovative product forms and evolving flight robots from "controlled 3D movement" toward "agile embodied operation." With this funding, Weifen Zhifei is using original technology as its torch, focusing on core directions to achieve sustained breakthroughs and build a more general, safe, and adaptive aerial embodied intelligence architecture:
01 World Model Navigation: Learning Real Flight from Imagining Arbitrary Commands
World models are shaping infinite possibilities for flight imagination. When a flight robot sees its current view and receives a natural language command, it no longer responds directly — instead, it first simulates the future flight process, then decodes the imagined scene into executable flight trajectories. This technology uses generative video models to express spatiotemporal relationships and physical changes, and through sampling selection, scale correction, and real-time control, addresses the problems of scarce data, insufficient generalization, and difficult alignment with complex commands that plague traditional visual-language navigation. Thus, faced with semantically rich unfamiliar environments, the flight robot can first understand, then simulate, then execute — truly bringing open-ended, more imaginatively expansive flight commands into the real world.
02 Understanding Commands, Comprehending Environments: Long-Range VLN Lets Flight Robots Find What You Imagine, Reach Where You Point
Long-range VLN technology gives flight robots language understanding and environmental reasoning capabilities. The robot not only comprehends natural language commands but also continuously understands scenes and recognizes target relationships during flight, autonomously determining flight direction across long-distance missions. Through high-fidelity data construction, staged training, and unified spatial-semantic modeling, this technology incorporates safe flight space and target distribution expectations into a single inference framework, addressing the shortcomings of shallow command understanding, weak long-range memory, and low exploration efficiency in complex scenes found in traditional methods. Faced with large-scale environments and open-ended tasks, flight robots no longer simply fly point-to-point — they can truly find what you imagine and reach where you point.
03 Reinforcement Learning Capability Evolution: Streamlined Sensing, Rapid Maneuvering, Safety Assurance
Agile flight based on end-to-end reinforcement learning has achieved multi-faceted capability improvements. With only monocular RGB as streamlined sensory input, flight robots can perform rapid maneuvers and autonomous obstacle avoidance in complex environments. Through high-fidelity simulation training, domain adaptation, and safety constraint design with embedded physical models, this technology achieves safety-constraint-guided end-to-end training and optimization, addressing the heavy sensor dependence, high-speed flight risks, and incomplete real-world deployment safety of traditional approaches. Thus, lightweight, low-cost platforms can likewise achieve fast yet stable, flexible yet safe autonomous flight.
Realizing Dreams Through Technology, Letting Intelligent Flight Empower All Growth
Gao Fei, founder of Weifen Zhifei, stated: "This financing represents not only capital markets' conviction in the value of aerial embodied intelligence, but also recognition of our original vision. We have always believed that aerial embodied intelligence is not exploration of niche technology, but a fundamentally new way of reconstructing human interaction with space — an important force driving the rise of low-altitude economy and boosting new quality productive forces. We aspire to use technology as our wings and original vision as our rudder, letting intelligent flight break boundaries and enter every domain, empowering industrial upgrading and benefiting countless scenarios with the power of technology, heading toward the vast ocean of intelligent flight."
Going forward, Weifen Zhifei will take technological innovation as its core, deepening its presence in aerial embodied intelligence, iterating products and solutions, expanding application scenarios, and using intelligent flight technology to empower every industry and contribute to new quality productive forces.
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