Liquid AI announced the launch of d1-ultra, a decision model it claims to be the world's best, saying it outperforms Jev 1.14 in eight task categories and surpasses competitors such as vLLM Semantic Router d3 overall.
On October 8, Ant Group's strategic investment arm disclosed that Liqing Intelligent, a Physical AI infrastructure platform company, has completed hundreds of millions of yuan in angel and angel+ financing. Ant Group invested in both rounds and led the angel+ round, with participation from CMC Capital, Guoqi Investment, CICC Capital funds, and Shanghai AI industry funds, plus follow-on investment from existing shareholders including Shunwei Capital, Century Jinyuan, FreeS Fund, and Shui Mu Tsinghua Alumni Seed Fund; the proceeds will go toward physical-world data pipelines, model R&D, physics simulation, capability evaluation, and cross-embodiment adaptation and deployment systems.
Liquid AI's D1 decision model is now live on OpenRouter. It accepts application state and answers yes/no, choice, or score questions, returning structured answers with probabilities for each option. It supports zero data retention, with pricing of $0.04 per million input tokens, free output, and a 65K context length.
On September 28, DeTa Intelligence released Delta-0, a native humanoid robot foundation model with a "brain-cerebellum-force-position" collaborative design, unifying vision, language and body state inputs to output whole-body action goals. A demo showed the robot planning 32 steps in 210 seconds to complete nine household tasks, while another robot with a dexterous hand completed whole-body coordination tasks such as operating a record player.
On September 25, Ruixin officially launched mass production of the Gaoguang D35, the world's first RISC-V architecture dataflow physical AI chip, at the 5th Global Digital Trade Expo. The chip features a dataflow architecture and fully self-developed RISC-V cores, supports 128GB memory and chiplet configuration. Ruixin also signed cooperation agreements with leading enterprises covering smart parks, smart transportation, healthcare, and embodied intelligence.