Chinese artificial intelligence pioneer SenseTime has open-sourced a “world model” and kicked off its foray into the burgeoning field of embodied intelligence by releasing its first robotic dog.
The Hong Kong-listed AI firm’s new venture, Ace Robotics, on Thursday released Kairos 3.0, an open-source model that simulates the physical world, and a developer platform called “KaiWu” that supports embodied intelligence applications.
“Ace Robotics will promote the large-scale commercialisation of embodied intelligence and build an independent and controllable development path for China to lead the world in this technology,” said SenseTime co-founder and executive director Wang Xiaogang, who also serves as chairman at Ace Robotics.
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According to the SenseTime-backed venture, Kairos 3.0 would give every robot a “smart brain”, as the open-source world model “understands the physical laws of the real world”.
The product announcement reflected the growing interest of prominent AI companies – including Tencent Holdings, Google DeepMind, Elon Musk’s xAI and SenseTime – in the field of “spatial intelligence”, which would provide virtual environments to train AI-powered robots.
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SenseTime’s wealth of real-world data would give it an advantage in developing useful robots through powerful world models, Wang said in a group media briefing.
SenseTime pushes open-source AI model to provide a ‘smart brain’ for every robot
