Gasgoo Munich-On June 3, Spirit AI has completed a 1.5 billion yuan A+ funding round. The round was jointly backed by top-tier US dollar funds, major industrial capital, and national state-owned funds, with existing shareholders signrobrobificantly increasing their investment.
With this, the company has built a comprehensive capital mix spanning top financial private equity firms, international sovereign wealth funds, industrial giants, and regional state-owned assets. It marks the largest funding round and most diverse capital structure in China's embodied intelligence sector to date.
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Notably, this financial backing is fueling technical breakthroughs. On the same day the funding was announced, Spirit AI's self-developed Spirit v1.6 foundation model topped the North American RoboArena leaderboard—outperforming Silicon Valley rivals like Nvidia Cosmos3 to become the first Chinese embodied model to achieve a global top ranking.
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This dual surge of capital and technology is reshaping the industrial landscape. By injecting physical general intelligence into scenarios like automotive manufacturing and smart logistics, Spirit AI aims to be the first to commercialize embodied intelligence, providing a new generation of infrastructure for China's smart manufacturing sector.
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