Ant Lingbo launches first funding round, plans to raise 1.5 billion yuan

TechFlow news, August 3rd, according to reports from LatePost, Lingbo Technology, an embodied AI company under Ant Group, has launched its first round of financing, plans to raise 1.5 billion yuan, and aims to complete the second round of financing by the end of this year. The report pointed out that Lingbo has currently formed a relatively complete layout on the brain chain related to robot perception, understanding, and action, covering directions such as vision, depth, mapping, video, world models, VA, VLA, etc., and therefore has received attention from multiple investment institutions prior to the launch of financing.

The report stated that currently, funds in the embodied AI track are accelerating towards the "embodied brain" direction. Ant Lingbo is regarded as the core carrier of Ant Group in the embodied and physical AI fields, and Ant will continue to provide support in areas such as AI infrastructure, data assets, and application scenarios. One of the core goals of this round of financing is to accelerate the development of Lingbo's embodied brain. The report also mentioned that Lingbo's future valuation will depend on model generalization capabilities, real deployment and data flywheel, as well as whether it can grow into a global physical AI foundation model platform.