According to Tencent Technology’s report today, “Tsinghua system”Big Model CompanyZhipu AI It is reported that a new round ofFinancing, Beijing Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund participated in the financing. In response, Zhipu AI said that it was "inconvenient to disclose" the specific investment amount this time.However, Zhipu AI is the first large-scale artificial intelligence model company invested by the fund since its establishment..
Zhipu AI said that the funds raised will continue to be used for further research and development of large-scale base models, and to cooperate with leading companies in various industries to create a thriving large-scale model ecosystem in thousands of industries.Jointly empower the implementation of the municipal government's industrial strategy and support the construction of Beijing International Science and Technology Innovation Center, accelerating towards the era of general artificial intelligence.
In October last year, Zhipu AI announced that it had completed financing of over 2.5 billion yuan. The company's financing participants mainly included the Social Security Fund Zhongguancun Independent Innovation Fund (Legend Capital is the fund manager), Meituan, Ant, Alibaba, Tencent, Xiaomi, Kingsoft, Shunwei, Boss Direct, New Oriental, Sequoia, Hillhouse and other institutions, as well as some old shareholders including Legend Capital.The above funds will be used for further research and development of the large-scale model of the base, better support the industry ecology.
The company's official website shows thatZhipu AI is committed to creating a new generation of cognitive intelligence general model, and jointly developed the bilingual 100 billion-level ultra-large-scale pre-trained model GLM-130B, and based on it, built ChatGLM (chatglm.cn). In addition, Zhipu AI also launched a cognitive big model platform Bigmodel.ai, including products such as CodeGeeX and CogView, providing intelligent API services.
In addition, the target total scale of the Beijing Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund is RMB 10 billion, of which the Beijing Municipal Government Investment Guidance Fund (Guidance Fund) will contribute no more than RMB 3 billion.