Integrating AI agents with drones and quadruped robots, Geo-Infinite explores a new intelligent path for mineral prospecting.
Chengdu Dixiang Infinite Technology Co., Ltd. (Brand Name: Dixiang Geometry) is undergoing an angel round of financing, planning to raise 30 million yuan with a post-money valuation of 200 million yuan. The funds will be mainly used for technology R&D, marketing promotion and commercial implementation.
Founded in 2026, Dixiang Infinite Technology focuses on AI mineral exploration. Its clients include mining companies, government geological survey institutions and mining investment institutions, providing them with a full-stack solution of "AI mineral exploration agent + intelligent exploration hardware". According to the relevant person in charge of Dixiang Infinite, before the establishment of the company, the core founding team completed pre-research on early-stage technologies, and its technologies have been put into engineering application, empowering multiple commercial mine projects around the world at present. Verification shows that this technology can compress the traditional exploration cycle that takes several years to about 6 months, increase the delineation efficiency of target areas by more than 10 times, greatly improve the efficiency of mineral exploration and achieve a cliff-like cost reduction.
Industry Pain Points: Extremely Long Mineral Exploration Cycle, the Success Rate of Blind Drilling Has Long Been Less Than 1%
In recent years, the energy transformation has pushed up the demand for key minerals such as lithium, cobalt and nickel, while domestic supply is highly dependent on imports. Since the implementation of the new round of strategic action to achieve breakthroughs in mineral exploration, exploration investment has continued to grow, and the problem of mineral exploration efficiency has been brought to the forefront.
The low efficiency of traditional exploration has always been a persistent industry problem: it often takes several years or even more than a decade for a deposit from general survey to development, and the success rate of blind drilling has long been less than 1%, with a large amount of capital consumed in invalid boreholes. Dixiang Infinite believes that the crux lies in the disconnection of the three links of perception, observation and cognition: on-site data cannot be fully collected, multi-source data cannot be effectively integrated, and expert experience is difficult to replicate.
The solution of Dixiang Infinite covers both software and hardware: on the software side, it has self-developed a mining AI agent matrix with GeoFusion multi-source data analysis engine and GeoMindra comprehensive analysis engine as the core; on the hardware side, it is equipped with "intelligent hands and feet" such as AI drone clusters and exploration quadruped robots to empower on-site data collection. The company said that the key of this system is to transform the tacit experience of senior geological experts into algorithms that can be deduced by machines, reduce the dependence of mineral exploration decision-making on a small number of experts, and make the mineral exploration results closer to the truth.
Business Model: Three-stage Monetization System of Technical Consulting, AI RaaS and Mining Right Operation
The AI mineral exploration track has been verified by the world's top capitals. Overseas benchmarking company KoBold Metals completed a $537 million Series C financing in January 2025, with a valuation of about $3 billion. Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV), the climate fund founded by Bill Gates, has participated in the investment from the early stage to the Series C round. The list of BEV's investors includes Jeff Bezos, Jack Ma, Masayoshi Son, Michael Bloomberg and Ray Dalio, the founder of Bridgewater Associates.
"However, KoBold's revenue mainly comes from its own mining operations, with a relatively single path." The relevant person in charge of Dixiang Infinite told 36Kr that the company has chosen a more diversified monetization method: the first is technical consulting for mining enterprises and geological survey institutions; the second is AI RaaS, that is, exchanging technology services for mining right returns; the third is directly participating in mining right operations. In response to the data security issues that mining enterprises are generally sensitive to, the company has also introduced zk-SNARKs zero-knowledge proof technology to make core geological data "available but not visible".
"Global top capitals have voted for this track with real money, and there are very few domestic startups in this direction." Dixiang Infinite said that this is the reason why this round of financing hopes to attract the attention of investment institutions.
Team and Planning: "AI + Geology" Practical Team to Accelerate Value Growth
AI mineral exploration is a typical interdisciplinary track, which not only requires the hard core technical capability of AI engineering, but also the practical experience of front-line mineral exploration. It is difficult for teams with a single background to realize the real implementation of technology. Therefore, Dixiang Infinite has built a compound core team driven by "artificial intelligence + geological science", which has full-chain capabilities covering algorithm R&D, geological research and judgment, hardware integration and cross-border mining right operation.
The technology team has accumulated R&D experience in large-scale intelligent systems and autonomous intelligent equipment, and has mature engineering capabilities to transform tacit industry knowledge into standardized AI products. The geological team gathers a group of geological industry experts with decades of front-line practical experience, covering many subdivisions such as mineral deposit geology, geophysics, geochemistry, mineral processing engineering and reserve evaluation, with experience in world-class deposit discovery and global mining right operation, which can precipitate front-line mineral exploration intuition into a deducible metallogenic knowledge system.
"The company is also equipped with a professional industrial operation team to support cross-border mining right cooperation and the implementation of diversified business models." The above person in charge said that for the post-financing planning, the funds will be mainly invested in three directions: core technology iteration, improvement of intelligent perception system, and expansion of commercial projects at home and abroad. The company plans to continuously amplify the technology implementation achievements within 24 to 36 months, expand the global project territory, and promote the rapid growth of the enterprise's valuation. Under the background of the country's independent guarantee of key minerals, the industrial dividend of AI transforming traditional exploration continues to be released, and the track has broad long-term growth space.