LatentVerse
About
About LatentVerse
LatentVerse was founded in May 2026 by researchers from Tsinghua University’s Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences. Founder and chief executive Hu Yucheng previously worked on embodied foundation models at ByteDance Seed. The company’s research programme spans large-scale pretraining, world models, dexterous manipulation, data infrastructure and deployment on robot hardware.
Its UTAM architecture uses touch as a native model input throughout the architecture, supporting closed-loop perception, decision, action and correction. The company is at an early research and product-development stage; no commercial deployment scale was disclosed with the seed financing.
Funding
- 2026-08-11 - Seed - LatentVerse raises several hundred million yuan in seed financing
LatentVerse completed a several-hundred-million-yuan seed round to develop multimodal embodied foundation models and supporting data and deployment infrastructure. - source: bjnews.com.cn
Investors
- AgiBot - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-08-11
- ClearVue Partners - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-08-11
- Hillhouse Venture Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-08-11
- Inno Angel Fund - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-08-11
- RobotEra - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-08-11
Timeline
Events
- 2026-08-11 - Funding - LatentVerse raises several hundred million yuan in seed financing
Hillhouse Venture Capital, ClearVue Partners and Inno Angel Fund invested alongside robot companies AgiBot and RobotEra. The company was founded in May 2026 by a Tsinghua IIIS embodied-intelligence team led by Hu Yucheng. Funding supports embodied-model pretraining, world models, dexterous manipulation, data infrastructure and deployment on robot hardware.
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