Spirit AI

Spirit AI (千寻智能) is a Chinese embodied-intelligence startup that has raised nearly RMB 3 billion across two funding rounds since the start of 2026 . The company was co-founded by Gao Yang, a Tsinghua University assistant professor, who serves as its co-founder and focuses on building a general-purpose foundation model for embodied intelligence . In the company's own framing, the next challenge is not external market momentum but the internal problem of how to actually solve the technical hurdles standing in the way of a general embodied-intelligence model .