Kaiwuji
开物纪
Kaiwuji (开物纪) is an AI-for-Science startup using scaled AI models to discover, mass-produce, and commercialize new materials — in founder Lu Ziheng's own words, "materials that could change humanity's fate." Lu, a materials scientist who left Microsoft Research in 2025 where he worked on AI4S, founded the company (registered September 2025); he also serves as chief materials scientist at the Beijing Zhongguancun Academy. His co-founder Yang Mengyang also came from Microsoft, having worked at its UK office. As of the April 2026 interview with 十字路口Crossing, the team was about ten people with zero revenue — yet its angel+ round, in which BlueRun Ventures led the angel and doubled down, reached hundreds of millions of RMB. Lu frames the raise as a bet on timing: model capabilities have improved enough that genuinely civilization-shifting materials may be within reach. The space is crowded — overseas Periodic Labs, Bezos-backed Project Prometheus, CuspAI and Orbital Materials; at home, DeepWise and 深度原理.
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A Material, An Industry
After Breaking Ground, Growth Follows | Quarterly
The stage is set. Your entrance awaits.
"You've got a shovel that can dig up gold — you're definitely not lending it out first" | A Conversation with Kaiwuji's Lu Ziheng: Using AI to Invent New Materials
As long as you're still stirring things up, there's still hope.
"You wouldn't lend out a shovel that can dig up gold" | A Conversation with Lu Ziheng of Kaiwu Ji: Using AI to Invent New Materials
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The louder the noise, the cooler the head.
BlueRun Ventures Angel Portfolio Company Kaimat Completes Hundreds of Millions of RMB in Angel+ Round, Building AI4S-Driven Materials Intelligence Infrastructure | BlueRun Family
Achieving efficient materials translation from "discovery" to "mass production"
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The Posture of the "Number One" and the "Silent Majority"
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The AI industry has never lacked for new stories.
BlueRun Ventures' AI Annual Outlook: Survival, Evolution, and Narrative for China's AI Founders | Booming Talk
"Chinese people can now define a narrative of their own in AI too."
