According to the news of "Intelligence Emergence",Kai-Fu LeeAI big model unicorn company foundedZero One EverythingA new round of financing worth hundreds of millions of dollars has been completedFinancing, with a valuation of over 20 billion yuan. This round of financing was participated by many institutions including international strategic investors and Southeast Asian consortiums, but Zero One has not yet responded to this.
Founded in May 2023, Zero One Everything has a core team from well-known companies such as Google and Microsoft. Today, it is known as the "Six Little Tigers of Big Models" along with Zhipu AI and Baichuan Intelligence, and is rising at an astonishing speed.
In the field of AI big models, a valuation of 20 billion yuan has become a threshold. Internet strategic investors and state-owned capital platforms have entered the market, and more and more companies are seeking overseas capital support. Zero One Everything is also actively expanding overseas markets, and its product strategy is to land in China after overseas verification.
In the C-end market, Zero One Wanwu's AI office tool PopAi has achieved good results overseas; in the B-end market, its first closed-source model Yi-Large has been launched, and its customers include many Fortune 500 companies.
Kai-Fu Lee said that large model manufacturers need to think about how to enter the "long-distance running mode" and proposed the concept of TC-PMF, emphasizing the importance of technical paths and reasoning costs. In addition, many high-level AI talents from Google and Microsoft have recently joined Zero One Everything, injecting new impetus into its future development.