"Beta Infinite" Completes Hundreds of Millions of Yuan in Seed and Seed+ Rounds of Financing
Beta Infinity, a company focused on general embodied intelligence for consumers, has secured several hundred million yuan in seed and seed+ funding rounds. The funding, which saw participation from multiple investment firms including Hongtai Fund, Zhengjing Fund, and Ginko Valley Capital, will be directed towards core technology research and product prototyping. Separately, Alibaba's chip division, T-Head, unveiled its new AI chip, the Xuanwu M890, at the 2026 Alibaba Cloud Summit. This chip boasts 144GB of memory and offers triple the performance of its predecessor, supporting various data precisions for both training and inference. AI
IMPACT New AI chip advancements and funding for embodied AI companies signal continued investment and development in specialized AI hardware and consumer applications.