Tsinghua University

State-backed Chengtong Fund led the round, as Chinese humanoid and embodied AI companies race to scale research and commercial use.

The company said its on-premise deployment revenue rose more than 100% to 533.9 million yuan (US$77.43 million).

The experiment used 128 Nvidia H20 chips for 220 hours during supervised fine-tuning and 32 H200 chips for seven days during reinforcement learning.

Researchers said these results suggest LightGen and photonic computing could help address the rising energy demands of AI.

Geely claims the centre has set five Guinness World Records, including the largest automotive safety laboratory.

The new institute brings together faculty from automation, mechanical engineering, electronic engineering, and computer science departments.

Students are allowed to use AI as an aid but are not permitted to submit AI-generated content as their own academic work.

Living Lab Ventures said the funding will be used to expand Increase’s operations and strengthen its research capabilities.

GLM-4.6 is available on Hugging Face and ModelScope, though Z.ai will not release a smaller “Air” version.

The AI application cooperation center aims to enhance sectors like education, healthcare, and agriculture.