独家丨任少卿创立具身公司，蔚来将成新公司战略股东

TL;DR - NIO autonomous-driving chief Ren Shaoqing is founding a physical-AI and embodied-intelligence company, with NIO participating as a strategic shareholder and partner. The venture will develop foundation models and embodied robots while Ren continues leading NIO’s autonomous-driving business.

• The startup plans a research-heavy team focused on next-generation AI foundation models and the development, production, and sale of embodied robots.
• NIO will provide strategic backing and pursue deeper collaboration with the new company.
• Ren previously helped develop Faster R-CNN and ResNet and built NIO’s in-house autonomous-driving technology stack.
• NIO’s current driving architecture combines a world model, supervised fine-tuning, and closed-loop reinforcement learning; its latest NWM world model was reportedly deployed to more than 700,000 users.