Ex-NVIDIA Simulation Head Launches Guanglun Intelligence, Secures $1.4B Funding

Embodied intelligence data company Guanglun Intelligence recently closed a combined Series A++ and A+++ funding round totaling RMB 1 billion. Investors include New Hope Group, Dingbang Investment (the family office of the chairman of Sanan Optoelectronics), Aux Group, Jian Tou Hua Ke, and Guofang Innovation—comprising both strategic and financial institutions. Founded in 2023, Guanglun Intelligence was co-founded by Xie Chen, formerly head of autonomous driving simulation at NVIDIA, Cruise, and NIO. The company focuses on physical AI simulation and data infrastructure, building a three-layer technical architecture—"World–Behavior–Evaluation"—that enables high-fidelity multi-physics simulation, large-scale embodied data generation, and an industrial-grade evaluation platform called RoboFinals. Its data and simulation services are already delivered globally, with clients including NVIDIA, Google, Figure AI, ByteDance, and Alibaba. The company projects a tenfold revenue increase in 2025 and expects its Q1 2026 revenue to surpass its entire 2025 total.