A new embodied-AI data center in Hangzhou aims to replace slow human-operated collection with simulation, claiming it can produce in a month what the industry took two years to gather. The pitch reframes robot training capacity as a computing problem rather than a labor problem.
Westlake University has opened a world model research center in Hangzhou, aimed at the physical intelligence bottlenecks behind robotics and embodied AI. It pairs an academic lab with a founder of an AI startup, a model increasingly common in Chinese AI research.
Two Chinese startups building 'world models' and embodied AI have raised major funding, showing investors' appetite for robots that can simulate and plan before they act.
AMD has agreed to buy World Labs, the world-model startup co-founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, in an $8.2 billion all-stock deal. The purchase, coming weeks after Nvidia bought Hugging Face, has unsettled Chinese robotics and embodied AI founders.
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