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Spirit AI

千寻智能

Spirit AI (千寻智能) is a Chinese embodied-intelligence startup building generalizable humanoid robots and the underlying VLA (vision-language-action) models that power them. Founded by CEO Han Fengtao, a veteran roboticist who trained under academic pioneer Ding Han, and co-founded by Gao Yang, a UC Berkeley PhD who studied under Pieter Abbeel, the company has moved at unusual speed: it closed a RMB 528 million Pre-A round in April 2025, then raised nearly RMB 5 billion across four rounds in just three months during early 2026, pushing its valuation past RMB 10 billion . Its self-developed Spirit model series has repeatedly topped international benchmarks—Spirit v1.5 ranked first on RoboChallenge in January 2026, and v1.6 became the first Chinese model to hit number one on the RoboArena leaderboard, surpassing Nvidia's Cosmos3 and Physical Intelligence's Pi 0.5 . On the commercial side, Spirit AI has deployed what it calls the world's first humanoid-robot production line at CATL's Zhongzhou base, where its Moz1 robot handles battery assembly, and it has struck partnerships with Bosch, JD.com, and other industrial heavyweights . The company also maintains research ties with Tsinghua, Peking University, Zhejiang University, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences to source AI and robotics PhDs . Oasis Capital, which led Spirit AI's seed round, remains a key backer .

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