Moxin Technology (KOKONI)
Category: Foundation Models / LLMs
Hangzhou-based 4D world-model company (MoWorld) that trains and deploys on Huawei Ascend NPUs. It pivoted from KOKONI consumer 3D printers. Moxin Technology (KOKONI) was founded in 2021. The company is led by Chen Tianrun (陈天润). Based in Hangzhou, China. Team size: 101-500. Total funding raised: $140M. Latest round: Series A. Key investors include Huawei Hubble (哈勃投资), Shenzhen Capital Group (深创投), Zhejiang Venture Capital (浙创投), Legend Holdings / 联融志道, Fullhan Microelectronics (富瀚微), SMIC Juyuan (中芯聚源), Bilibili Ganbei Fund (干杯基金), Xingrui Capital, JinkoSolar Holding, Joulwatt (杰华特), CDH Baifu & Loongson Ventures, P7 USD Fund.
- Founded
- 2021
- Headquarters
- Hangzhou, China
- Team size
- 101-500
- Total funding
- $140M
Value proposition
Real-time interactive 4D world models (up to ~50 FPS) that turn images, text or video into editable, physics-aware 3D/4D spatial assets. The models are built on domestic Chinese compute, and the company says inference costs about 30% of a comparable GPU setup.
Products and solutions
MoWorld / MoWorld-4D general world model (~14B params, launched July 2026), MoWorld-Flash on-device model (~600M params) running on Kirin phones, 'Mo Xiao Chong' (摸小宠) HarmonyOS pet 4D digital-twin app shown at the Huawei Mate 90 launch, KOKONI-World prototype (late 2025), exportable 3D/4D Gaussian assets, legacy KOKONI consumer 3D printers.
Unique value
A 'Flash World Model' that combines high frame rate, high fidelity and low cost. It is trained, distilled and served end-to-end on Huawei Ascend with Huawei on-site engineering support. Deployment runs from Ascend cloud generation down to a Kirin on-device runtime.
Target customer
Smartphone and device OEMs; film, game and content studios; embodied-AI and robotics developers; autonomous-driving simulation teams; industrial digital-twin users (factories, mines, energy); urban-planning and cultural-tourism projects.
Industries served
Media & entertainment, gaming, embodied AI/robotics, autonomous driving simulation, industrial digital twins, urban planning, cultural tourism, consumer mobile apps
Technology advantage
Implicit latent-space world modeling with long-horizon state memory, plus a PB-scale proprietary 3D asset library built since 2021. Deep Ascend co-optimization (Matrix384 supernode, 910C, MindSpeed) cuts inference cost by about 70% versus an equivalent GPU setup, per the company. Backed by a dense syndicate of industrial investors.
How they differentiate
Focuses on real-time interactivity (~50 FPS) and industrial deployment rather than static or entertainment-only generation. Runs fully on domestic Ascend compute at lower cost, and ships to mobile devices through Huawei Kirin.
Main competitors
GigaAI / 极佳视界 (China, physical world models), World Labs (US, Fei-Fei Li), Tencent Hunyuan 3D World Model / Alibaba world models
Key partnerships
Huawei (Ascend NPU training/inference with on-site support, Huawei Cloud partner, Kirin on-device deployment, HarmonyOS app at the Mate 90 launch), Fullhan Microelectronics (strategic cooperation on 3D/4D vision), National AI Application Pilot Base (MoWorld-4D co-launch)
Notable customers
Huawei (Mate 90 HarmonyOS app)
Major milestones
2021: founded as Moxin (Huzhou) and launched KOKONI consumer 3D printers. Late 2025: KOKONI-World interactive world model prototype. Jan 2026: HQ moved to Yuhang, Hangzhou. Mar 2026: Huawei Hubble-led Pre-A+, making Hubble the largest external shareholder (7.98%). Jul 2026: MoWorld-4D (~14B params, ~50 FPS) launched on Ascend. Aug 2026: RMB 500M round. Oct 2026: MoWorld app featured at the Huawei Mate 90 launch.
Growth metrics
4 funding rounds in 8 months, totaling about RMB 1B raised by Aug 2026. Valuation went from RMB 840M after the Pre-A+ (Mar 2026) to about RMB 4B (Aug 2026), and reportedly to near RMB 10B on a pending RMB 1B-scale round (Sept 2026). The team reached about 150 by 2023. The company has completed its joint-stock reform.
Market positioning
One of China's leading world-model startups, with a reported valuation near RMB 10B (Sept 2026). Positioned as spatial-intelligence infrastructure for physical AI and closely aligned with the Huawei Ascend ecosystem. It trails GigaAI, which has a valuation of RMB 20B+ and is exploring a Hong Kong IPO.
Geographic focus
China (domestic compute and industrial ecosystem), with global world-model competition
About Chen Tianrun (陈天润)
Founder of KOKONI consumer 3D printer brand (2021); Zhejiang University direct-PhD student in Computer Science, supervised by Academician Pan Yunhe (former ZJU president); 50+ papers at CVPR/ICCV/ICML/SIGGRAPH/TPAMI; profiled by Forbes. Confirmed as Founder & CEO at the 2026 World Young Scientist Summit (Oct 24, 2026).