Ant Group leads hundreds of millions in angel funding for Physical AI startup Liqing Intelligence
What's the deal? Liqing IntelligenceDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, a Physical AI infrastructure startup, has raised several hundred million yuan across an angel funding series. Ant Group added capital in two consecutive rounds and led the angel-plus round.
Who else joined? CMC CapitalDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, Guoqi Investment, CICC Capital funds, Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Industry Fund, Zhongguancun Science City FundDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, Shanghai Future Industry FundDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, Deshi Investment, and Chengkai Fund participated. Existing backers Shunwei Capital, Century Golden Resources, Frees FundDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, and Shuimu Tsinghua Alumni Seed Fund added to their stakes.
What's the endgame? The company is building an infrastructure platform that links foundation models to the real world. It develops its own high-precision multimodal data collection hardware and runs a large-scale physical-world data pipeline.
What's the money for? Liqing will spend the funds on physical-world data pipelines, model research, physics simulation, capability evaluation, and cross-embodiment adaptation and deployment systems. The goal is to turn model capabilities into verifiable, deployable real-world results.
The signal: Ant Group's repeat backing points to rising investor appetite for the infrastructure layer beneath Physical AI, where the bottleneck is less about models than about feeding them real, learnable data.
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