Spirit AI Raises $145 Million More - Backed by Funds Tied to Both Lei Jun and Jack Ma - Bringing Its Total to $420 Million in 30 Days as China's Humanoid Robot Race Accelerates
The Beijing startup's vision-language-action model already runs live in CATL's battery factories, its Spirit v1.5 topped the RoboChallenge global leaderboard in January, and it has accumulated 200,000 hours of real-world robot interaction data using wearables that cut data collection costs 90%
