# Physis

Startup profile on Capital Atlas: https://capitalatlas.ai/startups/physis

- Industry: Software
- Headquarters: Beijing, China
- Total disclosed funding: $100M
- Latest round: Seed (Jun 17, 2026)
- Investors on record: 6

## About

Based in Beijing, China and founded in 2026, Beijing Inverse Matrix Technology Co., Ltd., dba Physis, is a world model technology developer. The company was co-founded by Boyuan Chen, a senior undergraduate student majoring in Artificial Intelligence at Peking University's Yuanpei College, and Jiaming Ji, a doctoral student at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Peking University. 

In June 2026, Physis raised over USD 100 million in seed funding from MPCi, 5Y Capital, Luminous Ventures, Ant Group, GL Ventures, Yanyuan Chuangtou, and other investors.

Physis mainly engages in the research and development of world model technology that integrates basic models and reinforcement learning, to build general artificial intelligence models that can understand and predict changes in the physical world. The technology's applications span general physical scenarios including industrial simulation, embodied intelligence, autonomous driving, and game physics.

The company generates revenue from developing world model technology.

The company will use the seed++ funding for the pre-training research and development of its universal world base model and the construction of a large-scale training system.

## Funding rounds

- Seed, Jun 17, 2026, $100M — 5Y Capital, Ant Group, MPCi, GL Ventures, Luminous Ventures, Yanyuan Chuangtou

## Investors

- 5Y Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/5y-capital) — Seed
- Ant Group (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/ant-group) — Seed
- MPCi (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/mpci) — Seed
- GL Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/gl-ventures) — Seed
- Luminous Ventures — Seed
- Yanyuan Chuangtou (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/yanyuan-chuangtou) — Seed