Tsinghua Special Award winner adds another AI startup: GeoPT first author enters physical world models

What happened: Wu Haixu, a 2022 Tsinghua Special Award winner and first author of GeoPT, has started a world model startup called Wuyuan Technology (物原科技), entering the physical world model space with an approach that reportedly extends the GeoPT research line. Key numbers: Valuation in the hundreds of millions of Why it matters: The company has quickly closed multiple rounds with first-tier institutional backing, and its plan to build world models with physical modeling capability follows the GeoPT pretraining paradigm that lifts static geometry into dynamic space via Synthetic Dynamics.

Tsinghua Special Award winner entering physical world models signals strong AI talent catalyst.

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