Yuanli Lingji / RoboticX
Tang Wenbin's new embodied intelligence company, founded early 2025, focused on native VLM pretraining with robot data.
“Tang Wenbin co-founded Megvii (旷视) in 2011—one of China's earliest AI companies—built on computer vision. Now in 2025, he is co-founding Yuanli Lingji (原力灵机 / RoboticX), focused on embodied intelligence.”
Source→“Intelligent, useful, trustworthy robots—that's our mission statement.”
Source→“We co-trained a native VLM multimodal model—we contributed robot data, Jiyue contributed some multimodal data, plus autonomous driving data.”
Source→“We co-trained a native VLM multimodal model—we contributed robot data, Jiyue contributed some multimodal data, plus autonomous driving data.”
Source→“The first person in our entire company to do deep learning was Fang Haoqiang. We sent a high school student to probe it. In the end, the results were surprisingly good.”
Source→“Zhao Erjing and Fang Haoqiang—we called them internally the 'power combination.' They did the whole pipeline from keypoint detection to recognition, all extremely well.”
Source→“We found that rlyml had already done this reinforcement learning framework quite well... so we discussed it with Wang Yu and the team, and now we're looking at merging them into a larger project.”
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