Manifold AI Secures $100M in Funding, Launches Real-Time World Model with 10% Fewer Parameters

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Manifold AI announced project funding, raising $100 million in a Pre-A round led by Guoxin Fund, Tiger Global (Temasek), BAIC Industrial Investment, and Xinen Ventures. The robotics AI company, co-founded by Dr. Wu Wei and Tsinghua University’s FIB Lab, launched WorldScape—a real-time world model with 10% fewer parameters than top competitors. The model ranks first on the WorldScore leaderboard and supports mobility and manipulation tasks in logistics and manufacturing. Manifold also introduced the WorldArena benchmark, in alignment with the CVPR 2026 World Simulator Challenge. The funding announcement underscores growing momentum in AI + crypto news within robotics and embodied AI.
ME AI News, according to monitoring by Beating, robotic large model company Manifold AI has completed a new round of financing amounting to hundreds of millions of yuan, raising its total Pre-A funding to nearly one billion yuan. Investors include China State-owned Capital Fund, E峰 Capital under Temasek, BAIC Industrial Investment, and XinNeng Venture Capital. Manifold AI was founded by Dr. Wu Wei, former senior executive at SenseTime, and the FIB Lab at Tsinghua University; the core team has won the Waymo Autonomous Driving Simulation Challenge twice. Their proprietary real-time world model, WorldScape, serves as a pre-trained foundation model for robots, supporting both mobility and manipulation interactions. WorldScape employs a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture and has maintained the top rank on the WorldScore benchmark for nearly two months with only 10% of the parameters of mainstream competitors. Combined with WorldScape’s spatiotemporal prediction state, the action model WorldScape Policy filters out random interferences such as complex lighting and backgrounds, enabling zero-shot fine-grained control—already deployed in embodied scenarios like e-commerce logistics and 3C manufacturing. To evaluate large models’ decision-making capabilities in real-world embodied tasks, Manifold AI has partnered with dozens of research institutions to launch the WorldArena benchmark. The evaluation covers six dimensions and 16 metrics, shifting focus from visual realism to practical robotic decision-making value, and has already been used to support the World Simulator Challenge at CVPR 2026. (Source: BlockBeats)
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