“Dialogue with Zhang Haixing: After leaving Tesla, I want to create a robot that looks more human than Optimus.”
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In 2024, Zhang Haixing, the former founder and leader of Tesla’s Optimus project, left his job to start a business and founded Matrix Super Intelligence. The company released the third-generation full-size humanoid robot MATRIX-3, equipped with 33 degrees of freedom throughout its body and its own developed embodied large model MATRIX Wave. The goal is to create robots that “look more like humans,” which Zhang Haixing refers to as “China’s Optimus.” He emphasized that the manufacturing of hardware is more challenging than algorithm software, and believes that combining both is necessary to avoid creating a “brain within a cylinder.” He plans to develop the company into “the largest physical AI company on this planet.”
Zhang Haixing, founder and CEO of Matrix Superintelligence, founded the company in 2024 and released the third-generation full-sized humanoid robot MATRIX-3. This robot features 33 degrees of freedom throughout its body and uses the proprietary MATRIX Wave large-scale embodied model. Its goal is to create a “Chinese Optimus” that “looks more like a human.” Zhang Haixing was a founding leader at Tesla during the Optimus project before leaving to start his own business in 2024. He stated that the manufacturing of hardware is more difficult than algorithm software, emphasizing the need for a combination of both to avoid creating a “brain within a cylinder.” He plans to develop Matrix Superintelligence into “the largest physical AI company on this planet.”