Alibaba, JD.com and other internet giants are collectively making moves to layout the field of wearable intelligence. Industry sources say that Alibaba is focusing on wearable intelligence and has invested in almost all wearable intelligence companies.
According to LatePost Technology, on September 8th, Zibianli Robot recently completed nearly 1 billion yuan in Series A+ financing, with Alibaba Cloud and Guoke Investment leading the investment, and Guokai Financial, Sequoia China, and Yinze Capital following. Existing shareholder Meituan's investment arm also participated in the over-subscribed funding, while Lenovo Capital and Junlian Capital continued to invest. It is understood that this is Alibaba Cloud's first investment in a specific embodied intelligence company. Alibaba Cloud stated that they will provide multidimensional support for Zibianli and the funds will be used to support the continuous training of Zibianli's self-developed general-purpose embodied intelligence basic model and the research and development iteration of hardware products. Previously, Alibaba Group has invested in a number of companies in the embodied intelligence and industrial chain, such as Zhiyuan Power, Xingdong Era, Yushu Robot, Xinghaitu, and Lingxin Qiashou. A practitioner once told us that in the first half of last year, after Alibaba finished investing in a round of large-scale model companies, they focused on embodied intelligence and "invested in almost all embodied intelligence companies." In addition, recent business changes have occurred in RoboScience's affiliate company Beijing Jike Future Technology Co., Ltd., with the addition of JD Technology Information Technology Co., Ltd., Anhui Zero One Eagle Entrepreneurship Venture Capital Partnership Enterprise, Shenzhen Merchants Bureau Innovation Investment Fund Center, among others as shareholders. The registered capital has been increased from about 1.58 million RMB to about 2.02 million RMB, and some key personnel have also experienced changes. Public information shows that RoboScience is a technology development company specializing in embodied intelligence.
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