Tsinghua Star Wu Haixu's World-Model Startup Valued at $600M
量子位 · wechat · 2026-10-16
Quantumbit reports that Wu Haixu, a 2022 Tsinghua special scholarship winner (first author of Autoformer, MIT CSAIL postdoc), has quietly founded a world-model startup called Wuyuan Technology (物原科技), focusing on world models with built-in physical modeling that extends his GeoPT work on lifting static geometry into dynamics via synthetic data.
The company has raised three rounds at a $600M valuation, with investors including Ant, Meituan, Fortune Venture and Starlink. His Google Scholar citations near 30,000.
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