Ant Group unveils LingBot-VA 2.0 physical AI robot model

Ant Group's Robbyant division released a technical report on LingBot-VA 2.0, a video-action foundation model built from scratch for robotics rather than fine-tuned from a video generator. It predicts future states ahead of execution and reaches 225 Hz asynchronous control, though some of the paper's own reported numbers reportedly don't fully line up.

Why it matters: A major Chinese tech company pushing purpose-built physical AI models rather than repurposed video generators.