Tsinghua prize winner's world-model startup reported at $600M valuation after three rounds
Wu Haixu, a 2022 winner of Tsinghua University's top scholarship, has founded a world-model startup called Wuyuan Technology (物原科技), which has already closed three funding rounds and reached a reported valuation of about $600 million (roughly RMB 4 billion), according to QbitAI. Investors named in the report include Ant Group, Meituan, Dachen Caizhi and Xinglian. The company is said to focus on world models with physical modeling capability, partly extending GeoPT — a February paper Wu co-authored as first author that uses synthetic dynamics to lift static geometry into dynamic space so models learn physical intuition from particle trajectories without labels. Wu is currently a postdoc at MIT CSAIL with Wojciech Matusik; GeoPT co-authors also included Tsinghua associate professor Long Mingsheng and MIT's He Kaiming. The valuation and deal details come from people familiar with the matter and have not been confirmed by the company.
World models with physical modeling are seen as core infrastructure for embodied AI and simulation, and this kind of high-valuation early funding shows investors are still betting on the category.