LiberAI (将闲科技), a Beijing startup developing AI and humanoid robots for the home, raised a Pre-A++ round of several hundred million yuan on September 17 at a staggering ¥6B (~$893M) post-money valuation. Its demo videos show a robot frying an egg, flipping food in a wok and making a salad. To teach these skills, the company says it relies mainly on recordings collected with sensor gloves and videos of people from the internet.
This was its sixth financing since incorporation in December 2025. Its fundraising adviser says investors have put more than ¥1B (~$149M) into the company in total. Its valuation rose from ¥3B (~$446M) on June 11 to ¥5B on July 31 and ¥6B in the latest round, doubling in about three months.
Mind over motor
The round was announced on September 17, the day LiberAI’s Liber-0 Preview model took first place on RoboDojo, which tests AI models controlling robot arms on 42 simulated tasks. A day earlier, RoboDojo’s team had added OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra to the board. Tested without additional task-specific training, Astra achieved a 22.5% average success rate, putting it above every public entry at the time. Liber-0 Preview reached 25.5%.
