Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence

A nonprofit AI research institute in Beijing, known for large models and the open-source embodied brain model RoboBrain.

BAAI is a nonprofit AI research institute founded in Beijing in November 2018; its founding board chair, Hongjiang Zhang, previously served as CEO of Kingsoft. BAAI first became known for large models: Wudao 2.0, with 1.75 trillion parameters, the multimodal model Emu3, and the widely used BGE embedding model for retrieval, most of them open-sourced. In embodied AI, it released the embodied brain model RoboBrain (version 1.0 in February 2025, version 2.5 open-sourced in early 2026) and RoboOS, a cross-embodiment multi-robot collaboration framework; the approach has the brain model handle task decomposition, affordance, and trajectory prediction, then hands off to a lower-level controller or a VLA (vision-language-action model) for execution. BAAI has also incubated the embodied-AI company Xingyuanzhi Robotics. In March 2025, it was added to the U.S. Commerce Department's Entity List.

ExampleGiven a tabletop photo and the instruction 'put the cup to the left of the plate,' RoboBrain outputs where on the cup to grasp it and a movement trajectory point.

Also called

智源研究院 (short Chinese form), 智源 (colloquial Chinese short form)

Related

RoboBrain · RoboOS · Brain–Cerebellum Architecture · Xingyuanzhi Robotics · Embodied Foundation Model · Open-weight Model

Sources

Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence - Wikipedia

As of

2026-01