Physis Secures Over $100 Million in Seed++ Funding Round with Strategic Investment from Ant Group

Physis, also known as Niju Technology, has announced the completion of a Seed++ funding round exceeding $100 million.

This financing round saw participation from leading investment firms including Matrix Partners China, Lightspeed China Partners, 5Y Capital, BAI Capital, and Zhongding Capital, and also secured a strategic investment from Ant Group Co., Ltd. Existing investors such as Hillhouse Capital's venture arm and Peking University-affiliated fund Yanyuan Venture Capital continued their support with significant additional investment.

The raised capital will be primarily allocated to the pre-training research and development of a general world foundation model and the construction of a large-scale training infrastructure system.

Company Overview and Mission

Physis is an AI company focused on building a general world foundation model. Its goal is to enable artificial intelligence to genuinely comprehend and predict the operational laws of the physical world, providing a universal underlying cognitive engine for serious industrial applications, embodied AI, physical simulation, interactive worlds, scientific prediction, and other physical AI scenarios.

Team Expertise

The core team comprises members from top-tier domestic and international universities and leading technology companies, possessing both cutting-edge research capabilities and extensive experience in large-scale engineering implementation. Academically, the team has long been dedicated to areas such as world models and reinforcement learning. Core members have collectively published over 80 papers at premier international AI conferences including NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, and ACL. Open-source projects led by core team members have garnered over 20,000 stars on GitHub, with model downloads surpassing 5 million.