Gasgoo Munich- GigaAI has recently closed a B1 financing round worth nearly 1.5 billion yuan, according to Gasgoo.
This round was backed by a prominent tech giant, several top-tier state funds, and industry players including Yili Group's CVC arm Jianling Capital, Puhua Capital, Huafu Investment, and Addor Capital. Other participants included the New Industrialization Fund, Qianrong Capital, Shengjing Capital, Turing Capital Management, Kaiyang Capital, Wuhan High-tech, Guiyang Financial Investment, and Shandong Industrial Investment. Existing shareholders such as Huakon Fund, Huamintou, Yicun Capital, and Lingyang Investment doubled down with significant additional capital, signaling record-high investor confidence.
Just prior to this, GigaAI secured nearly 1 billion yuan in a Pre-B round in early March.
That means GigaAI has raised 2.5 billion yuan in a single month, pushing its valuation past the 10 billion yuan mark.
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Founded in 2023, GigaAI's core team has lived through the past decade of physical AI evolution. They have delivered leading results in computer vision, autonomous driving, embodied AI, and world models at every stage. The team is a rare industry hybrid, boasting both world-class innovation capabilities in "next-generation physical AGI" and full-stack mass-production experience in traditional physical AI.
Strategically, GigaAI emphasized from the start that world models are the next critical frontier after language models. To that end, the company has rolled out GigaAI-0, GigaAI-Policy, and GigaAI-1 over the past two years, laying a solid foundation for large-scale scaling.
Centered on Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, GigaAI has also released representative works like GigaBrain-0, GigaBrain-0.1, and GigaBrain-0.5M, providing crucial validation for the feasibility of scaling.
Leveraging its globally leading embodied foundation models, GigaAI's general-purpose robot, the Maker H01, has achieved commercial breakthroughs in several high-value scenarios. These include benchmark applications in the automotive, 3C electronics, warehousing, and home service sectors, with the company targeting 1,000 unit deliveries for the year.
As a new-generation physical AGI-native body developed entirely in-house, the Maker H01 features a humanoid design with high degrees of freedom. It is equipped with more than 20 degrees of freedom and a multimodal high-precision perception system, specifically designed for dexterous manipulation and mobile interaction in open environments.
Building on this, GigaAI is constructing the industry's largest and highest-quality data foundation. By the end of the year, its high-quality vision-action data is set to exceed 1 million hours, while world model pre-training data will surpass 10 million hours.
Notably, as the representational power of world models continues to strengthen, GigaAI has identified autonomous driving and content creation as two key growth vectors.
In autonomous driving, its next-generation driving simulator—built around a world model core—already serves over 30 leading global automakers and autonomous driving companies.
On the content creation front, GigaAI has partnered with top clients in film and gaming. It is developing several world models tailored for content, aiming to break the limitations of current video generation models that focus primarily on visual effects.
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