Founded in May 2025 by researchers from Tsinghua’s FIB lab and industry veterans, Manifold AI develops WorldScape, a real-time foundational world model, and WorldScape Policy, a world-action model for embodied agents. The company claims top rankings on benchmarks such as WorldScore, WorldArena, and RoboTwin and says its models achieve strong generalization, few-/zero-shot execution, and robustness under substantial visual and environmental perturbations. Manifold AI reports an "industrial+academic" team with more than 200 top-tier publications and over 100,000 citations, and it has built a hardware-data-model closed loop that has accumulated hundreds of thousands of hours of high-quality data. It also established the WorldArena evaluation benchmark and has participated in organizing related challenges (CVPR 2026 WorldArena Challenge). With the new funding, Manifold AI plans to expand its multimodal world-model research, infrastructure, and industry deployments in logistics, manufacturing, automotive, and mixed-reality entertainment.

Total raised

$147M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Jun 2026