A Brilliant Vision: The Rapid Rise from a Tsinghua Lab to a ”Unicorn” in Physical AGI

3 monthsfinancing3.5 billion, with a valuation exceeding 10 billion—China’s answer to the global model industry has emerged

On June 15, 2026, Jijia Vision secured another 1 billion yuan in Series B2 funding. Investors included Singapore’s Lion City Capital, the China-Belgium Fund, Jian Tou Investment, Wanxiang Qianchao, and other top global state-backed funds and industrial capital firms. To date, this company—founded just three and a half years ago—has completed three consecutive rounds of large-scale financing within three months: a 1 billion yuan Pre-B round, a 1.5 billion yuan B1 round, and a 1 billion yuan B2 round, for a cumulative total of 3.5 billion yuan, with its valuation surpassing 10 billion yuan.

This is not just another round of funding. It is a collective vote of confidence by global capital in the technological path of ”world-model-driven physical AGI.”

Origin: A Tsinghua PhD’s ”First Principles”

On January 18, 2023, in Changping District, Beijing, a micro-enterprise with a registered capital of only about 2.12 million yuan was quietly established.

Founder Huang Guan—who holds a Ph.D. from Tsinghua University’s Department of Automation and gained hands-on experience at Microsoft Research Asia and Samsung China Research Institute—served as Head of Visual Perception Technology at Horizon Robotics, where he spearheaded the creation of WebFace260M, the world’s largest facial recognition dataset. Armed with a nearly stubborn conviction, he set the stage for Excellent Vision:

“World models are the next most important thing after language models.”

2023年初，ChatGPT刚点燃全球AI狂潮，所有人都在追逐大语言模型。黄冠却转身扎进了”物理世界的智能”——一个更难、更慢、但他认为更有价值的方向。

The team started with just 11 members. There was no fanfare or press conference—just a group of young people in the Intelligent Vision Laboratory of Tsinghua University’s Department of Automation who believed that ”AI will eventually move from the digital world to the physical world.”

His assessment is not without basis. As a technical leader who has repeatedly led teams to world championships in prestigious global AI competitions, Huang Guan is keenly aware that while digital AGI has already completely transformed the digital world, the intelligent transformation of the physical world is the true ”last mile.”

Growth: Four Funding Rounds in Three Years—From a ”Small and Micro” Startup to a ”10-Billion-Yuan Unicorn”

Jijia Vision's funding pace sets a record for acceleration in the hard tech sector:

Huawei's entry into the market with its Hubble technology is particularly crucial. In November 2025, Shenzhen Hubble Technology Investment Partnership, a subsidiary of Huawei, acquired a stake in the company, increasing its registered capital to approximately 2.117 million yuan. Huang Guan himself revealed: ”Huawei has ranked the World Model as the top technology trend among the ”Top Ten Technology Trends for the Future Intelligent World 2035,’ and this is also the underlying rationale for investing in Extreme Vision.”

This is not only an injection of capital, but also a strategic mutual recognition of technological approaches.

On June 20, 2026, Beijing Mayor Yin Yong visited Haidian District to investigate the development of the embodied intelligent robotics industry. He made a special effort to hear a briefing from Jijia Shijie on its technical roadmap and practical applications, and encouraged the company to ”keep pace with cutting-edge global trends in model technology, increase investment in the research and development of foundational models, and expand applications across diverse scenarios.”

From a small, 11-person startup to a unicorn valued at 10 billion; from a research paper in a Tsinghua University lab to robots up and running in a factory—Jijia Vision achieved all this in just three and a half years.

Core Technology: The World’s First ”Double Pyramid” System

The key reason why Excellent Vision was able to grow from a ”small and micro enterprise” into a unicorn valued at 10 billion in just two years lies in the fact that it has developed a systematic methodology—The World’s First ”Double Pyramid” System for Physical AGI.

The Fundamental Question: What Exactly Is Holding Back the Scaling of Physical General Intelligence?

Huang Guan's team's assessment was precise and unflinching: the two major bottlenecks—Lack of data, lack of algorithms.

• Real-world data offers high accuracy but is costly and limited in scale;
• Simulation data is scalable but suffers from the “sim-to-real gap”;
• The mainstream VLA paradigm typically tokenizes visual and action data and feeds it into large language models, but this mechanism is inherently ill-suited for processing 3D spatial information, physical causal logic, and continuous action encoding.

The Data Pyramid (Five Layers)

Expected to be achieved by the end of 2026A total of 1 million hoursTraining data that supports the model's strong generalization capabilities across different tasks, scenarios, and ontologies.

Algorithm Pyramid (Three Layers)

“The ”World Generation–Action” Dual-Model System

This is Excellent Vision’s true technological moat—World Action Modeltogether withWorld Generation ModelsA Spiral of Progress, Each Step Indispensable:

The World Action Model (Turning Understanding into Action)::

World Generation Models (Understanding, Simulating, and Generating the Physical World)::

It is worth noting that in April 2026, Alibaba’s embodied world model, ABot-PhysWorld, briefly surpassed GigaWorld-1 to take the top spot in WorldArena, but Jijia Shijie immediately responded by securing 1.5 billion in Series B1 funding and achieving a valuation exceeding 10 billion—the competition is far from over, but Jijia Shijie has firmly established itself in the top tier.

Product Portfolio: A Full-Stack, Closed-Loop Approach from the Brain to the Body

Excellent Vision is not a company that ”only does algorithms.” Its product philosophy is:World Model Platform × Embodied Foundation Model × General-Purpose Ontology, All three pieces are essential.

The product philosophy behind the Shiguang S1 is worth noting—it doesn’t adopt a fully humanoid design, but rather a wheel-and-arm configuration. Huang Guan’s assessment is very pragmatic: ”The essential needs in a home setting are reliably carrying water, clearing the table, and handing snacks to children—not parkour in the living room.” The wheel-arm configuration offers comprehensive advantages in terms of stability, safety, range, and cost.

Implementation: Consumer-facing solutions enter households; business-facing solutions enter factories

The commercialization of "Excellent Vision" is proceeding along the following path:“Two-Track Approach”Route:

B2B: Industrial Applications Have Reached Scale

In April 2026, GigaWorld, in collaboration with FAW Mold and Alibaba Cloud to deploy the GigaWorld + GigaBrain + Maker H01 trio in a real FAW Molds factory. By addressing tasks such as pallet de-stacking, cross-area transport, dynamic obstacle avoidance, and precision operations, they reduced the adaptation cycle—which typically takes months with traditional automation solutions—to just a few weeks.

On June 3, 2026, Jijia Vision and Longsheng Weirui, a subsidiary of Longsheng Technology, entered into a strategic partnership to jointly deploy 1,000 general-purpose robots in Wuxi over the next three years, equipped with Jijia Vision’s World Model and Embodied Brain—marking the world’s first large-scale deployment of 1,000 general-purpose robots driven by a foundational physical intelligence model in an industrial setting.

Consumer Market: The Home Setting Is Poised for Growth

Shiguang S1 has secured 100 orders for use in real-life home settings in China. The Shiguang S2/S3 series is set to launch in Q3 2026, with the goal of achieving the ”ChatGPT moment” for physical AGI—enabling everyday skills to be widely applied in real-life home settings.

Outlook: How Far Away Is the ”ChatGPT Moment” for the Physical World?

Huang Guan presented a clear three-phase roadmap aligned with the evolutionary path of digital AGI:

Huang Guan said, ”The GPT-3 era saw the emergence of intelligent capabilities in models; the ChatGPT era brought productivity benefits to every ordinary person; and the Claude Code era saw digital intelligence models reach the level of experts in specialized fields. Physical AGI will also undergo similar stages in the future, with one key difference: physical AGI will directly impact the real physical world. It will not only improve information efficiency but also reshape the way we produce and live, and therefore its impact on the economy and society will be even more far-reaching.”

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The story of "Excellent Vision" is, at its core, a story about“First Principles”The story.

While everyone else was chasing large language models, Huang Guan set his sights on the next frontier—the physical world. He addressed the fundamental question of ”What underpins the scaling of physical AGI?” with his ”Dual Pyramid” framework, and solved the ”last mile” challenge of moving “from the lab to mass production” through a closed-loop, full-stack hardware and software solution.

From a small, 11-person startup to a unicorn valued at 10 billion; from a research paper in a Tsinghua University lab to robots operating in factories; from a record-breaking 3.5 billion in funding raised in just three months to the attention of the Mayor of Beijing—Jijia Vision has proven one thing:

True faith in technology doesn’t need fanfare to prove itself. It just needs time.

And time is on their side.