Simple AI adds Pre-A+ capital from seven investors

Sep 4, 2026 · Funding · Simple AI / 深朴智能 · Foundation Models

Simple AI completed a Pre-A+ financing described as several hundred million renminbi to advance embodied foundation models, data infrastructure, robot engineering and commercial deployment.

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  • Investors included Kexi Capital, Shanghai Sci-Tech Innovation IP Fund, GP Capital, Bozhou Industrial Investment, Shangcheng Capital, Qianrong Capital and existing investor Linear Capital.
  • Proceeds are allocated to embodied foundation-model research, data infrastructure, robot engineering and commercial deployment.
  • The company also reported that HiFi-UMI had processed more than 20,000 hours and 4.32 million manipulation sequences across more than 480 scenarios; these are corpus metrics, not the financing amount.

Simple AI develops embodied foundation models, robot-learning data infrastructure and robot engineering systems. Its HiFi-UMI pipeline captures robot-free bimanual demonstrations and converts them into policy-training data for physical manipulators.