Gao Haichuan, founder of Qianjue Technology, spotted a business opportunity in robot intelligence in 2019 while working in a Tsinghua laboratory but waited four years to act, founding Qianjue in 2023 after deciding the technology was ready for engineering development and commercial deployment. Qianjue has completed a Series A+ funding round worth a nine-figure RMB sum, according to 36Kr, with participants including Oriza Rivertown, SSC Fund, KHK Fund, Innoangel Fund, Jingming Capital, and Future Marginal Ventures, alongside other financial and strategic investors, plus longtime private equity fundraising adviser Maple Pledge. The company has completed nine funding rounds since its founding. Gao argued robotics would have no “ChatGPT moment,” and Qianjue’s first orders were for restaurant, cleaning, and hotel service robots. Gao does not expect the data collection problem to be solved soon, so Qianjue pursues research and deployment in parallel, with its R&D team exploring algorithms within a predictive world model framework built on a polynomial representation architecture and its deployment team working with customers in hotels, retail, and home services. CTO Zhang Tianren describes Gao as an “atypical Tsinghua University graduate.”