Yandong Guo
郭彦东
Yandong Guo is the founder and CEO of AI2Robotics (智平方科技), an embodied robotics startup developing end-to-end VLA (Vision-Language-Action) models . He previously served as a researcher at Microsoft Research's core AI team in Redmond, then as chief scientist at Xpeng Motors from 2018, and later as chief scientist at OPPO from 2020, before founding AI2Robotics . In March 2025, Yunqi Capital joined a hundreds-of-millions-yuan pre-A+ round in his company , and by early 2026 he was presenting the firm's domestically developed large-model progress to China's premier .
Related coverage: Guo's name appears in passing in Yunqi Capital's 2026 team announcement and in Source Code Capital's coverage of chip startup Suanmiao Tech .
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Yunqi Capital | Premier Li Qiang Inspects Guangdong, Astribot, X Variable Robotics, and Robotsquare Demo Their Tech
According to *Xinwen Lianbo*, on January 4, Li Qiang, member of the Politburo Standing Committee and Premier of the State Council, conducted research in Guangdong, engaging in in-depth exchanges with companies and relevant departments on topics including technological innovation, new quality productive forces, and high-quality development.
WAIC Opens Today, Yunqi Capital Lineup Is Ready | Yunqi Capital x World Artificial Intelligence Conference
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"Zhì Píngfāng" Robot Launches New Model — What Can It Do With Its New "Brain"? | Yunqi Capital
Equipped with a full-body, full-domain VLA large model, exploring new possibilities for intelligence.
Yunqi Capital Joins "Intelligent Square" in Hundreds-of-Millions-Yuan Pre-A+ Round to Advance End-to-End VLA Embodied Robot Commercialization | Yunqi Capital
Today, embodied intelligence startup **"Zhi Square" (智平方)** announced the completion of a Pre-A+ round worth hundreds of millions of RMB, with **Yunqi Capital participating in the investment.** This round of funding will primarily accelerate the continued iteration of its end-to-end VLA model and the scaled commercial deployment of embodied intelligence robots.
