November 20, 2011 - As reported by LatePost yesterday evening, "Large ModelOne of the "Six Little Dragons" - Zero One Everythingis planning to spin off an AI applications company in the near future.Applications such as games will be built on the basis of the Zero-One Everything Big Model.. The company is raising external funding at a valuation of tens of millions of dollars.
Note: Zero One Everything, Baichuan Intelligence, Smart Spectrum AI, Dark Side of the Moon, Minimax and Step Star are known as the "Six Little Dragons of Big Models" in the industry.
The report said that the new company after the spin-off is called "oases", with Jack Ma, co-founder and vice president of Zero One Everything, serving as chairman of the board. The spin-off is expected to be completed by the end of this year, and after the spin-off, Zero2One will remain the largest shareholder of Oasis. Before joining Zero2One, Mr. Ma was the vice president of Baidu and the head of Baidu's meta-universe product "Xiyang".
Prior to the split, the cloud game and cloud architecture that Ma Jie was responsible for was originally one of the revenue sources of Zero2One, and is now assigned to Oasis; the security and compliance and to B and to G business, which is also Ma Jie's responsibility, will be continued by Ma Jie in Zero2One.
Sources close to the matter said, "Zero One Thing is now more interested in modeling and arithmetic output. Letting some of the applications explore the product and commercialization development path alone is good for both the product project and Zero1Wantage."
"Xiyang is a meta-universe product released by Baidu on December 27, 2021, in which every user can create an exclusive avatar, with Meta's Horizon Worlds as its main competitor. Baidu said "Xiyang" is the first meta-universe product in China.