Funding
UBTECH and MetaX's robot chip venture Xixuan Chuangzhi raises 500 million yuan
Xixuan Chuangzhi, an embodied AI chip company set up by humanoid maker UBTECH and Chinese GPU designer MetaX, has completed a 500 million yuan angel round, the China Securities Journal reported on 12 November, citing a post on UBTECH's WeChat account. The company's post-money valuation is 4 billion yuan.
GGV Capital and Matrix Partners China co-led the round, with Heli Capital, CDH, SAIC Hengxu Capital, Yaotu Capital and Zhengxuan Capital among the other investors, according to the report. Based in Wuxi, Xixuan Chuangzhi was founded in May 2026 by UBTECH, MetaX and industrial machinery parts maker Fenglong.
Its first chip is designed as a robot system-on-chip that handles both high-level reasoning and low-level motion control, a combination Chinese robot makers describe as putting the big brain and the small brain on one chip. Zhidx reported that the company says the chip is meant to outperform NVIDIA's Thor, and that it plans to use general-purpose GPU cores with a CUDA-like software stack for adapting AI frameworks and models on the device.
The company plans to give industry partners a development and validation platform in 2027 and to launch its first SoC with a full embodied AI solution in 2028. It said the money will go to chip and compute platform development, a software toolchain, hiring, and joint validation with robot makers ahead of volume delivery. The first products are aimed at robots working in semi-structured environments.
MetaX founder Chen Weiliang chairs the company and UBTECH founder Zhou Jian is vice chairman, according to Zhidx, citing corporate registry data. Chief executive Yang Xianbo was previously a senior vice president at New H3C.