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Shenzhen Embodied-Chip Startup Primotion Unveils Paimon-0, Cutting Action-Chunk Inference to 300 ms

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Three-month-old Primotion is building robot chips by first training its own model. Paimon-0 tops several embodied AI leaderboards, by the company's account, and cuts action-chunk inference tenfold.

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