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Spirit AI (千寻智能) is a Chinese embodied-AI company founded in January 2024 to build "Universal Brains" for robotics — general-purpose embodied models that carry laboratory research into real-world deployment with robust generalisation and precise physical interaction. Its Moz Brai…
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| Year | Event | Source |
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| 2024 | Spirit AI founded | — |
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