Zhi Peng
稚晖君
Zhi Peng (稚晖君) is the founder and CTO of AgiBot (智元机器人), an embodied-intelligence robotics company he started in 2023 at age 30 after leaving Huawei's "Genius Youth" program, where he had joined at 27 . The company was co-founded with former Huawei computing product line president Deng Taihua and reportedly reached a RMB 7 billion valuation, with a record of completing RMB 300 million in angel funding within its first month . In a 2025 interview, Zhi Peng pushed back against the framing of embodied intelligence as "the next large language model," calling that its biggest misunderstanding .
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"Winning the world's admiration with nothing but bare hands is usually a young person's privilege."
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Founder-to-Founder Party
AgiBot's Chief Scientist: "The Biggest Misunderstanding of Embodied AI Is Treating It Like a Large Language Model" | BlueRun Ventures Family Headline
Now is the best time to enter embodied AI.
A Conversation with Zhiyuan's Chief Scientist: Calling Embodied Intelligence "the Next LLM" Is Its Biggest Misunderstanding
Necessary froth.
Zhiyuan Jun in Conversation with BlueRun Ventures: Let Some Humanoid Robots Enter Reality First | Booming Talk Coming Soon
Something is booming.
Setting Out on a Journey at 36 | Call for Submissions
"Knowing would be fatal. Uncertainty is what makes it enchanting."
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