The Zhitong Finance App learned that on August 3, there were media reports that Ant Lingbo has initiated the first round of financing and plans to raise 1.5 billion yuan. The goal is to complete the second round of financing by the end of this year. If the financing is completed as scheduled, it will break through the financing speed of startups in the field. Subsequently, Ant Lingbo responded to the financing rumor: it is indeed in contact with investors. As Ant Group's core layout in the physical field, Ant Lingbo will continue to focus on general-purpose robot brains, increase investment in embodied native technology routes, and accelerate the implementation of the industry.
This is the fourth Ant Group subsidiary to launch external financing after Ant International, OceanBase, and Ant Math. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ant Group, Ant Lingbo Technology is also Ant Group's key layout in the field of embodied intelligence. According to official data from Ant Lingbo, the company focuses on the research and development of an intelligent “universal brain”, has launched a variety of LingBot series models, and promoted commercial testing in retail and logistics scenarios.
According to Ant Lingbo's official website, the company has now released more than 10 models, including the personalised intelligent pedestal model LingBot-VLA, the personalised motion model LingBot-VA, the spatial-native visual pedestal model LingBot-Vision, and the world model LingBot-World. It has built a personalised intelligent model system covering visual perception, spatial understanding, task decision-making, motion generation, etc., and continues to promote figurative intelligence from basic model development to real scene application.