--- title: Spirit AI beats Nvidia on RoboArena robotics benchmark description: Chinese startup Spirit AI has topped the RoboArena robotics benchmark with its Spirit v1.6 model scoring 1,924, surpassing Nvidia's Cosmos3-Nano-Policy at... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/spirit-ai-beats-nvidia-on-roboarena-robotics-benchmark-bu6k33ae7 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Spirit AI beats Nvidia on RoboArena robotics benchmark | daily.dev og:description: Chinese startup Spirit AI has topped the RoboArena robotics benchmark with its Spirit v1.6 model scoring 1,924, surpassing Nvidia's Cosmos3-Nano-Policy at... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/spirit-ai-beats-nvidia-on-roboarena-robotics-benchmark-bu6k33ae7 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/bU6k33ae7.png og:image:alt: Spirit AI beats Nvidia on RoboArena robotics benchmark og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Spirit AI beats Nvidia on RoboArena robotics benchmark **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Chinese startup Spirit AI has topped the RoboArena robotics benchmark with its Spirit v1.6 model scoring 1,924, surpassing Nvidia's Cosmos3-Nano-Policy at 1,881 just two days after Nvidia launched it at Computex. RoboArena, co-developed by Nvidia with Stanford and UC Berkeley, evaluates real-world robot policy capabilities including object manipulation, navigation, and planning. Chinese firms now lead across multiple physical AI benchmarks including WorldArena and WorldScore. Spirit AI simultaneously announced a $222 million funding round — its fourth in three months — pushing its valuation past $1.4 billion. The broader Chinese robotics sector attracted $3.4 billion in VC funding in 2025, 42% more than the US. Nvidia is responding with the Cosmos Coalition and a humanoid robot reference design partnership with Unitree, but Jensen Huang acknowledged that data remains the hardest problem — an area where China may hold a structural advantage through state-backed data factories and its dense manufacturing ecosystem. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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