At the 2026 Bund Summit, Ant Lingbo CEO Zhu Xing told APPSO that robot deployment still faces capability and cost issues, limiting large-scale rollout in scenarios like convenience stores. He introduced Lingbo's embodied-intelligence focus, including LingBot-World, LingBot-Video and LingBot-VLA 2.0 models and deployments at Guoda Pharmacy, and shared views on foundation model value and generalization challenges.
At the Bund Summit on Sept. 11, 2026, Zhu Xing, CEO of Ant Lingbo, said the company focuses on building a universal brain for robots, offering closed-source foundation models and toolchains while partnering with robot body makers. He announced a first funding round targeting 1.5 billion yuan, with a second round planned by year-end, and argued that data is the core barrier in embodied AI: OpenAI's GPT-6 is a useful tool but does not solve the data problem. Ant Lingbo prioritizes data quality distribution and acquires data through customized collection.