BeingBeyond and Li-Gong Form Strategic Partnership

On August 26, BeingBeyond announced a strategic partnership with Guangzhou-based Li-Gong, a leading industrial Physical AI infrastructure company. Combining their strengths in embodied foundation models, robot hardware and real-world applications, the companies will build an iterative loop linking model training, deployment on physical robots and application feedback, helping embodied AI move from technical validation to deployment at scale.

Competition in embodied AI is shifting from the capabilities of individual models or robot platforms toward coordinated development across models, hardware and applications.

Li-Gong has extensive experience in robotics research, development and applications, with hardware capabilities that include humanoid robots and a broad base of applications in industrial manufacturing, smart laboratories and commercial services. Real-world tasks provide both a testing ground for robot capabilities and a continuing source of physical-world data and feedback to inform model improvements.

BeingBeyond develops general-purpose embodied foundation models. It was among the first companies in China to propose pretraining foundation models on large-scale egocentric human video, and the first startup in China to introduce a native latent-space world-action model. The company has reached several key industry milestones in large-scale egocentric human video pretraining, successively releasing the world's first embodied foundation models pretrained at each of four scales: thousands, more than 10,000, 200,000 and 500,000 hours of egocentric human video. It has built a full infrastructure stack spanning data pipelines, model pretraining, post-training, evaluation and on-device deployment. This supports the continuous accumulation of data at scale and ongoing improvements in model capabilities, helping robots operate in increasingly open and complex real-world environments.

The partnership extends beyond model deployment or isolated technical validation to establish a long-term iteration process around real tasks. Models run on robots and are tested in application settings. Within this process, robots both put model capabilities into practice and generate data and feedback. Application settings provide a place to deploy the technology and an essential environment for continuous model improvement.

The companies will pursue joint research and application validation across more industries, exploring embodied AI solutions that can be replicated and deployed more broadly.

About BeingBeyond

BeingBeyond focuses on developing and applying general-purpose embodied foundation models. It was among the first companies in China to propose a general-purpose model framework trained on large-scale human video data, and the first AI startup in China to introduce a natively latent-space world model. With a mission to bring humanoid robots out of the laboratory and into everyday life, BeingBeyond is committed to solving the core technical challenges of embodied AI and leading the transformation of humanoid robotics.