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Tsinghua
General Instinct
ActiveDeployable Physical AI on Any Edge Device.
Spring 2026Founded 20262 peopleSan Francisco, CA, USA
AI insightcan contain mistakes
Edge AI DeploymentAPI/InfraIoT/edge device manufacturers, robotics firmsHigh competition
Moat
Proprietary model compression and device-specific optimization; wide device compatibility.
Key risk
Open-source alternatives (TensorFlow Lite, ONNX Runtime) rapidly improving; commoditization risk.
Why now
Explosion of edge devices needing AI; battery/connectivity constraints driving demand for on-device inference.
Competitors
TensorFlow Lite, ONNX Runtime, Qualcomm Snapdragon Spaces, OctoML
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Founders · 2
Bill JiaoFounder
worked on Siemens' first multimodal foundation model, secured 2 patents on tardigrade proteins as a junior in high school, now building edge intelligence for physical AI.
Guanming WangFounder
Worked on robot learning and multimodal foundation models at DeepMind, UCL, and Tsinghua, with research recognized at ICML and ICRA. Now building the deployment layer for physical AI.
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