[Ant Lingbo Project Plans Two Rounds of Financing This Year, First Round to Raise 1.5 Billion Yuan] According to monitoring by Beating, Ant Group's embodied intelligence company Lingbo Technology has launched its first round of financing, aiming to raise 1.5 billion yuan, with plans to complete a second round by the end of this year. Lingbo primarily focuses on creating a 'general brain' for robots, aiming to develop a single model that can adapt to different brands and forms of robots. Its LingBot series encompasses visual perception, 3D mapping, world prediction, and motion control, enabling robots to progress from understanding their environment to executing tasks. The latest version, LingBot-VLA 2.0, utilizes approximately 60,000 hours of pre-training data, covering 20 types of robot configurations. Lingbo was previously fully incubated by Ant Group and is now beginning to introduce external capital. The first round is still underway, while the second round is already scheduled for the end of the year, with a financing pace that is more aggressive than the amount. [Original Link]