Dexmal

An embodied-AI company founded by Megvii co-founder Wenbin Tang, building VLA models, open tools, and benchmarks.

Dexmal was founded in March 2025, registered in Chongqing. Its founder and CEO, Wenbin Tang, came out of Tsinghua's elite Yao Class and co-founded and served as CTO of the computer-vision company Megvii; core team members Haoqiang Fan, Erjin Zhou, and Tiancai Wang also came from Megvii. It closed a RMB 200 million angel round the same month it was founded, and in November 2025 announced a Series A (led by NIO Capital) and Series A+ (exclusively from Alibaba) totaling nearly RMB 1 billion. It has built several pieces of industry infrastructure: the open-source VLA toolbox Dexbotic (VLA meaning vision-language-action model), the open-source hardware platform DOS-W1, and, together with Hugging Face, the real-robot benchmark platform RoboChallenge. In February 2026 it released the open-source model DM0 jointly with StepFun, followed by DM0.5 in July. Commercially, it started with logistics and warehousing.

ExampleRoboChallenge has every team deploy its model onto the same real robots to run the same set of tasks, comparing VLA models by real-robot success rate rather than simulation scores.

Also called

Dexmal Yuanli Lingji, Yuanli Lingji (Chongqing) Intelligent Technology

Related

DM0 · Dexbotic (Dexmal VLA toolbox) · RoboChallenge · Vision-Language-Action Model · Hugging Face · Open-Source Hardware (OSHW)

Sources

新京报：原力灵机完成2亿元天使轮融资 (Chinese)
新浪科技：Dexmal原力灵机融资近10亿元，阿里巴巴、蔚来资本分别领投 (Chinese)
瑞财经：Dexmal原力灵机两轮融资近10亿元 (Chinese)

As of

2026-07