insider brief
- Galaxea AI has raised about $290 million in Series B+ funding, valuing the Beijing-based embodied intelligence startup at about $29 billion, according to Yicai Global.
- The company said the round included industrial investors, long-term funds and state-backed capital and follows another round of approximately $140 million completed in February.
- Galaxea plans to use the funding to advance its vision-language-action and world-action models and accelerate commercialization, focusing on real-world data-driven systems rather than simulations to improve performance in physical environments.
Galaxea AI has raised about $290 million in a Series B+ round, valuing the Chinese embodied intelligence startup at about $29 billion, Yicai Global reported.
The Beijing-based company said the round included a combination of industrial investors, long-term funds and state-backed capital, following another funding round of about $140 million completed in February.
Yicai reported that Galaxea plans to use the funding to expand the development of its core AI models, including the Vision, Language, and Action Model and the World Action Model, as well as build a global ecosystem and accelerate commercial deployment. The company works to improve performance in physical environments, focusing on systems trained on real-world data rather than simulations.
Founded in 2023, Galaxea develops tightly integrated model architectures that combine perception, inference, and action. The company told Yicai that by accessing large, real-world datasets, it can more closely align understanding of the environment and performing tasks.
Yicai noted that Galaxea’s approach stands in contrast to some competitors, including Galbot, which relies heavily on simulation-based training. Galaxea’s strategy may be more data-intensive and costly, but it aims to improve real-world reliability for the deployment of embedded AI systems.
