BeingBeyond Wins First Prize at HICOOL 2026 Global Entrepreneurship Competition

At the opening ceremony of the HICOOL 2026 Global Entrepreneur Summit on August 26, BeingBeyond stood out from 10,209 participating projects to win the competition's first prize, with founder Lu Zongqing accepting the award on stage. Founded in May 2025, the company focuses on training embodied general foundation models using large-scale human video data. In July 2026, it released the Being-H0.8 general dexterous manipulation model, which unifies vision, touch, action, and future state changes into a single latent space.