88Z AI, 30 June — Tsinghua-affiliated startup Liqing Intelligence has completed a seed funding round worth hundreds of millions, with participation from Shunwei Capital, HongShan China, and Gaoling Ventures. Founded by Tsinghua AI Institute assistant professor Li Yiming, the team has an average age of 23. The company positions itself as a Physical AI infrastructure provider, developing proprietary data pipelines and differentiable physics engines to achieve a Real-to-Sim-Real loop, requiring only 1% of real-world
At a glance
- Liqing Intelligence secures hundreds of millions in seed funding from Shunwei and HongShan, with a team averaging 23 years old
- Positioned as Physical AI infrastructure, its proprietary engine enables efficient training with just 1% real-world data
The update
Tsinghua-affiliated AI startup Liqing Intelligence recently announced the completion of a seed funding round amounting to hundreds of millions of RMB. The investment round saw participation from prominent firms including Shunwei Capital, HongShan China, and Gaoling Ventures. The company was founded by Li Yiming, an assistant professor at the Tsinghua University Institute for Artificial Intelligence, and boasts a young, dynamic core team with an average age of just 23. In terms of business positioning, Liqing Intelligence explicitly rejects the "world model" label, instead aiming to become an infrastructure provider in the Physical AI sector. By developing proprietary data processing pipelines and differentiable physics engines, the company has successfully built a closed-loop system moving from real environments to simulation and back to reality. This technological breakthrough significantly improves model training efficiency, achieving equivalent results using only one percent of real-world machine data.
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