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On October 31, 2026, Westlake University established the Westlake World Model Research Center at its Yungu Campus; this is a university-level interdisciplinary research platform the university has set up for the field of physical intelligence. Professor Yu Kaicheng serves as the center's director and Academician Jin Yaochu as its chief scientist. The center focuses on world models and physical intelligence, with the goal of developing general-purpose world models that can understand physical laws, predict the consequences of actions, and continue learning from real-world feedback. According to QbitAI, the center builds on AutoLab's three years of accumulated work in the direction of "conceptual world models," and its incubated venture Westlake Shuzhi Awomo has already topped the rankings in four international robot benchmark suites and secured over 100 million yuan in seed and angel round financing. Yu Kaicheng envisions that downstream developers may in the future need only 20 to 30 hours of training to customize models for specific domains. There are currently no subsequent factual developments.
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The Westlake World Model Research Center was established on October 31 at Westlake University's Yungu Campus, with Professor Yu Kaicheng serving as director and Academician Jin Yaochu as chief scientist. The center builds on AutoLab's three years of accumulated work in the "conceptual world model" direction; its incubated Westlake Digital Intelligence Awomo has already topped the rankings in four international robot benchmark suites and has secured over 100 million yuan in seed and angel round financing. Yu Kaicheng envisions that downstream developers may in the future need only 20 to 30 hours of post-training to customize models for specific domains.
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Westlake University Establishes World Model Research Center, Focusing on the Core Bottleneck of Physical Intelligence
On October 31, Westlake University established the Westlake World Model Research Center at its Yungu Campus. This is a university-level interdisciplinary research platform the university has set up for the field of physical intelligence. The center is headed by Yu Kaicheng as director and Jin Yaochu as chief scientist, and focuses on world models and physical intelligence. Its goal is to develop general world models that can understand physical laws, predict the consequences of actions, and continuously learn from real feedback.
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