Capital Heavy Bet on Edge Physical AI: Qianhai Fund Invests Hundreds of Millions, Om AI Lianhui Accelerates Commercialization

Om AI Lianhui (Hangzhou Lianhui Technology) has completed a new round of financing of several hundred million yuan, led by Qianhai Mother Fund, with participation from Hangzhou government industry funds and other investors. The company also open-sourced its VLX-Seek 1.5 edge-native fine-grained multimodal model, claiming performance surpassing NVIDIA's core model at the same parameter level.

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Kandinsky WM 1.0: Generative Models for Physical AI

Sber has released Kandinsky WM 1.0, a set of three image-to-video models designed for autonomous vehicles, robotics, and complex physics scenes. The models, based on Kandinsky 5.0 Video Lite, are available under the MIT license and aim to address data scarcity in Physical AI by generating physically accurate synthetic videos.

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