36 Krypton First Release | Former core members of Weilai and Huawei Intelligent Driving teamed up to start an embodied world model and completed hundreds of millions of yuan in financing within three months

Author | Qiao Yujie Editor | Yuan Silai Hard Krypton has learned that the embodied intelligent world model company Riconian Kaiwu (Beijing Riconian Robot Co., Ltd.) has recently completed two consecutive rounds of seed round financing, with a total financing amount of hundreds of millions of yuan. Dingfeng Science and Technology, Yuantu Future, Baidu Ventures, Woyan Capital, Wu Yuefeng Science and Technology, and Wanlin International participated in the investment. At the same time, a new round of financing is also being completed simultaneously. Previous financing funds were mainly used for the research and development iteration of the self-developed world model LaMPA, the construction of reinforcement learning system, and the continuous improvement of data closed loop and product delivery capabilities. Founded in March 2026, Corona Kaiwu focuses on the research and development of basic models of the physical world, hoping to create a basic model that can understand the physical world, predict environmental changes, and drive robots to perform tasks, helping robots gradually move from single-scenario capabilities to cross-scenario generalization. The founding team of SunCoron all have backgrounds in autonomous driving at Tsinghua University, and have led the development and implementation of the industry’s first batch of intelligent driving world models as well as the first batch of embodied reinforcement learning and delivery work. The founder, Dr. Xiao Zhongyang, once led the delivery of the world model of the intelligent driving industry's first complex interactive scenario, which has been carried on more than 700,000 NIO vehicles; the team base model leader, "Huawei Genius Boy" Dr. Zhong Yuanxin, once led the design and mass production of Huawei's new generation intelligent driving world model prototype; the person in charge of post-model training and delivery, NIO Super Dr. Wang Yunlong of Spark was responsible for the research and development of large model and real machine reinforcement learning algorithms at Zhiyuan Robotics, and promoted the implementation and delivery of the first batch of factory work projects in the industry. Dr. Dai Yaqi, the head of the market, was a former partner of Wu Yuefeng Technology Innovation and led investments of hundreds of millions of dollars. As robots begin to enter complex scenarios, the industry is increasingly aware that relying solely on imitation learning or task-level training cannot support the true generalization capabilities of robots. Robots need to understand the operating rules of the physical world and predict future states and plan actions accordingly. This is why world models have become an important technical direction for embodied intelligence. At present, many studies in the industry will refer to the JEPA theory proposed by Yann LeCun, the Turing Award winner and the father of convolutional neural networks. Its core