Professor Li Yiming's team released two Physical AI research results: the world action model PrismWAM, which ranked first in the RoboTwin 2.0 evaluation, and the agentic framework RoboDoctor, which scored 57.1 across all 54 tasks in RoboDojo, leading the current comparison.
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.