As reported today by 36 Krypton's Intelligent Emergence.Large ModelunicornStep StarCompleted Series BFinancingTotal Financing AmountHundreds of millions of dollars.
The financing hasState-owned, strategic and financial investorsA number of other participants, including core investors including Shanghai State-owned Capital Investment Company Limited and its funds, strategic and financial investors including Tencent Investment, Wuyuan Capital, Qiming Venture Capital and so on.
The financing is used to continue to invest in basic model research and development, strengthen the multimodal and complex reasoning capabilities, and increase the coverage of C-end application scenarios through products and ecology. Jiang Daxin, CEO of StepStar, once said, "We will continue to invest in basic model research and development.Unimodal - Multimodal - Unification of multimodal understanding and generation - World model - AGI (General Artificial Intelligence)"This is the development route that StepStar has been planning since the first day of its establishment, which is similar to the path of "ChatGPT to Sora".
StepStar has already launched the intelligent assistant "Leap Ask". Photo Ask", a multimodal intelligent visual search function based on self-developed visual understanding model, isThe first in China to be integrated into iPhone 16 Camera ControlsThe big model product function in the. In addition, according to AI's previous report, Step-1o launched Step-1o 100 billion parameter end-to-end speech big model this month, which is said to be "the first 100 billion parameter end-to-end speech big model in China".
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