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BASAL Intelligence, founded by Tsinghua PhD Li Jianxiong, has secured funding led by Wuyuan Capital to develop an In-Context embodied AI model that allows robots to learn on-site without retraining.
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The team, including Tsinghua's Prof. Zhan Xianyuan, aims to reduce deployment costs significantly by enabling rapid adaptation to new environments.
Key Points
- BASAL's model focuses on action-native In-Context learning, diverging from traditional language-based approaches.
- The team includes 7 researchers who turned down high-paying offers totaling nearly 40 million yuan.
- BASAL's X-VLA model achieved top results in third-party evaluations with under 1000 hours of pre-training.
- The company aims to reduce the costs of deploying robots in varying environments significantly.
- BASAL is one of the first teams in China to explore rapid adaptation in embodied learning.
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