According to Intelligent Surge, the AI unicorn "Zhipu"Recently completed a new round ofFinancing,Amounting to $3 billionThe new investors include a number of war investors and state-owned enterprises. New investors include a number of war investors and state-owned enterprises, and old shareholders such as Junlian Capital continue to follow the investment.
The round of financing will be used for the further development of the large model of the Smart Spectrum Base, upgrading from answering questions to solving complex, multimodal tasks to better support the development of the industry ecosystem, the report said.
The report also mentions thatWisdom Spectrum's commercialization revenue has grown by more than 100% since 2024. "It usually takes nearly 10 years for a business services company to achieve several hundred million dollars in ARR (annual recurring revenue)." Smart Spectrum COO Zhang Fan has said bluntly, "Last year, it took us a few months to go through it."
- On the B-side, under the circumstance that the API price is greatly popularized, the annual revenue of bigmodel.cn API of Zhi Spectrum MaaS open platform has increased by more than 30 times year-on-year; on the C-side, since Q3 of 2024 when the paid function was launched, "Zhi Spectrum Clear Words" is expected to have an annual revenue of more than ten million yuan. CurrentlyWise Speech has over 25 million users..
As previously reported by 1AI, Intel, Smart Spectrum, and Mechanical Revolution have jointly released the CODE AI Programmer's Notebook designed for programmers, pre-installed with the Smart Spectrum CodeGeeX NANO, which utilizes the Core Ultra processor inside the CODE AI Programmer's Notebook to run entirely based on local arithmetic.
In November of this year, the end-side Wisdom Spectrum Clear Speech announced its upcoming launch, optimized for the Intel Core Ultra chip and offering a local processing "privacy mode".