Reuters on Thursday (December 14) quoted two people familiar with the matter to report that China Artificial Intelligence (AI) startups are raising a new funds of up to 200 million US dollars (about S $ 266 million)Essence
In the context of the surging interest of open source AI models last month, the company's valuation has reached $ 1 billion.
1 million things are one of the startups that have been opened or planned to open their large language models (LLM), and the larger companies such as Facebook parent company META and Chinese Internet giant Alibaba, etc.Competition for users together, and is chasing the leader of the artificial intelligence industry, Openai.
One of the people familiar with the matter said that after three months of the incubation period, 0,000 things were officially launched by former Google China leader Li Kaifu in July this year. The valuation in early November has reached 1 billion US dollarsEssence
Another person familiar with the matter revealed that 1,000 thousands of things are seeking additional investment in the US dollar investors.
After the AI industry burst into fire in 2021, the financing in China has declined in the past two years.According to IT orange data, as of November 20 this year, the total number of Chinese AI tracks in the first -level market has 530 events, a decrease of 26%compared with the same period last year;About 12 billion yuan), a decrease of 38%compared with the same period last year.
China Finance and Technology Media 36 reports that the overall macro environment of China's first -level market has experienced significant changes, especially the US dollar funds that prefer long -term investment such as AI.The difficulty of exit has led to the overall low of AI financing.
