Alibaba Cloud leads $140M funding for embodied AI startup X Square Robot

何が起きたか

Alibaba Cloud led a Series A+ funding round of about 1 billion yuan ($140 million) for X Square Robot, a Shenzhen-based embodied AI startup, according to a statement from X Square Robot on Monday. The company said the funds will be used for training its embodied intelligence foundation models and developing hardware products.

なぜ重要か

X Square Robotは、調達した資金を自社開発の身体知能向け基盤モデルの継続学習と、ハードウエア製品の段階的な開発に使うと説明しました。自動で複雑な作業をこなすロボット向けに、ソフトウエアと機体の両方を開発し続けるための資金が確保された点が分かります。