+1 (415) 347-6981Get started
Product & Engineering
Brand & Design
AI & Automation
AI Security
AI Labs
Ongoing
Fixed prices · You own the code · Proposal in 24h hello@startrise.io →
AI Model Release Tracker China · updated
  • 1Releases tracked
  • Nov 4Latest · Lion-ER-35B-A3B (and Lion-ER-4B, Lion-ER-9B)
  • 100%Open-weight
  • CNChina

Lion Rock AI Lab (China Merchants Lionrock AI Lab) is a China-based embodied AI research lab under the China Merchants Research Institute of Advanced Technology. It focuses on robot foundation models, vision-language-action systems, general-purpose agents and world models. Tracked releases include Lion-ER-35B-A3B (November 2026), an open Apache-2.0 multimodal embodied-reasoning MoE published on Hugging Face with smaller 4B and 9B variants.

Lion Rock AI Lab

China huggingface.co/cmriat

1 release latest Nov 4, 2026

  1. Lion-ER-35B-A3B (and Lion-ER-4B, Lion-ER-9B)

    Open Apache-2.0 embodied-reasoning MoE (~35B/3B active) fine-tuned from Qwen3.6-35B-A3B; avg@4 65.29 on ten visual/embodied benches.

    • Multimodal
    • Open weights
    • 262K ctx
    Source

Lion Rock AI Lab FAQ

What is Lion Rock AI Lab's latest AI model?
Lion Rock AI Lab's most recent release in the Startrise tracker is Lion-ER-35B-A3B (and Lion-ER-4B, Lion-ER-9B), released Nov 4, 2026.
How many AI models has Lion Rock AI Lab released?
Startrise tracks 1 notable Lion Rock AI Lab release since January 2025, from Lion-ER-35B-A3B (and Lion-ER-4B, Lion-ER-9B) (Nov 4, 2026) to Lion-ER-35B-A3B (and Lion-ER-4B, Lion-ER-9B).
Does Lion Rock AI Lab release open-weight models?
Yes. 1 of 1 tracked Lion Rock AI Lab releases (100%) ship with downloadable weights; the most recent is Lion-ER-35B-A3B (and Lion-ER-4B, Lion-ER-9B).
Where is Lion Rock AI Lab based?
Lion Rock AI Lab is based in China.