After the official release of a number of favorable private enterprises in the near future, Wang Xing, the founder of the Chinese takeaway platform giant Meituan, reportedly joined the new company set up by Meituan co -founder Wang Huiwen.This company focuses on the field of artificial intelligence (AI).
Comprehensive Daily Economic News, Shanghai Securities Journal, and Financial Network reported that Wang Xing wrote on Wednesday (March 8) in the WeChat circle of friends revealed that he will participate in Wang Huiwen's startup "Light Year"In addition," A -round Investment and Director.
The report also recounted Wang Xing's post saying: "The AI model made me excitedly the huge productive forces that are about to create, and worried about its impact on the entire world in the future. Pharaoh (Wang Huiwen) andI have been on the road of entrepreneurship for nearly two decades. Since he is determined to embrace this big wave, I must support it. "
Wang Huiwen and Wang Xing are classmates when they were studying in Beijing Tsinghua University.In the past ten years, the two joined hands with each other several times to create a number of successful cases such as the internal network and Meituan.
Wang Huiwen announced his retirement in 2020.It is reported that "when will Wang Huiwen start a business" has been a hot topic in the Chinese Internet circle.
In February this year, Wang Huiwen announced that he entered the AI field and established Beijing Guangnian Technology Co., Ltd.There are 25%of the shares.Wang Huiwen once said on a social platform, "To build Chinese Openai."
After the American Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory OPENAI launched the AI chat robot ChatGPT last November, it quickly opened its popularity worldwide, and won US $ 10 billion in US technology giants Microsoft in January this year.
According to Reuters, OpenAI has not yet opened ChatGPT to Chinese users, but it has attracted great interest in China. Many Chinese companies have scrambled to integrate ChatGPT technology into their own products or launch similar similaritysoftware service.