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Physix Frontier · News Briefing Card (QbitAI · Sep 29, 2026)

Knowin raises over RMB 1B angel+++ round led by JD fund

KEY FACTS

  • Knowin Intelligence has closed an angel+++ round of several hundred million RMB, led by a JD-affiliated fund.
  • Founded in August 2025, the company has completed five funding rounds in a single year, raising over RMB 1 billion cumulatively.
  • The capital will be used to expand training data, advance mass-production preparations for the KNOWIN-X1, and recruit talent.
  • The GLOW model achieved an average success rate of 62.2% across 18 simulated tasks in RoboDojo.
  • Chen Yingcong has joined as scientific advisor for multimodal models, and Deng Shiyuan as partner and head of Infra.

KEY DATA

over RMB 1 billionCumulative funding
62.2%RoboDojo average success rate
86.7%LIBERO-Pro average success rate
200+R&D headcount

PHYSIX OBSERVATION

JD's entry shows capital is starting to bet on the ability to land in home scenarios, not just on model benchmark scores. Knowin's pace of five funding rounds in one year is extremely fast, but the real test comes with mass production in 2027: the home environment is far more complex than simulation, and whether generalization capability can translate into a stable experience is the life-or-death line for consumer-grade embodied intelligence.

Source: QbitAI report