Startups

Recently, there are rumors in the AI circle, in the overall financing difficulties, valuation and constantly push up the background, some big model startups become difficult, in and out of the valley, which is highly regarded by everyone's attention "six tigers" in a two tigers, and even have given up the basic big model research and development, turned to the AI application. Because, if not transformed, I'm afraid that the "six little tigers" are going to be cool. If the tigers really do this, to some extent means that they began to take the initiative to go down the AGI table, from the grand narrative of the stars and the sea, to the reality of the grounded tea, rice, oil and salt. No way, or that old saying, the situation is stronger than people, the current environment, make money...

Robstride Dynamics, a core component company of body intelligence, announced on September 13th that it had completed an angel round of financing of tens of millions of yuan. This round of financing was co-invested by Yarui Zhiyou Scientist Fund, InnoAngel Fund, and One Dimension Venture Capital. The financing funds will be used for the continuous R&D iteration of the "full series of integrated joint modules" and team building. Founded in November 2023, Spirit Foot Era focuses on the industrialized application of integrated robot joints and the creation of a global open source platform for robot hardware. The company's core team worked at Xiaomi, and has...

AI researcher Feifei Li, known as the "godmother of AI," has raised $230 million (currently about 1.638 billion yuan) for World Labs, a startup she co-founded with three colleagues to develop AI technology that understands the workings of the physical world in three dimensions, according to Reuters. World Labs' first round of funding was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz, New Enterprise Associates and Radical Ventures...

SparkLabs, an early-stage venture capital firm that has made a name for itself by investing in OpenAI and many other AI startups such as Vectara, Allganize, Kneron, Anthropic, xAI, Glade, and Lucidya AI, has now launched a new offensive against AI startups around the world, announcing that it has closed a new $50 million fund, AIM AI Fund, which will support its AIM-X accelerator in Saudi Arabia…

Fei-Fei Li, a famous computer scientist known as the "godmother of AI", has created a startup called World Labs. According to the Financial Times, in just four months, its valuation has exceeded $1 billion. World Labs is committed to using similar methods to process visual data to enable artificial intelligence to have advanced reasoning capabilities. The company's research is ongoing and the goal is to enable AI to achieve more human-like capabilities. Dr. Fei-Fei Li is known for her contributions to computer vision and she also led the ImageNet...

AI computing startup FlexAI recently announced that it has received $30 million in seed funding, officially coming out of stealth mode. The company was founded last year and its team members include former employees from Apple, Intel, Nvidia and Tesla. Paris-based FlexAI is trying to disrupt the infrastructure market with its on-demand cloud services. Source note: The image is generated by AI, and the image licensing service provider Midjourney This round of financing was led by Alpha Intelligence Capital, Elaia Partners and He…

In the AI industry, especially in the field of generative AI, the rapid development of technology and the broad prospects of application have attracted a lot of investment and attention. However, the high cost of this field has also caused widespread discussion in the industry. Recently, a report in the Wall Street Journal pointed out that companies in the AI industry spend 17 times their revenue on purchasing Nvidia GPUs, which is a shocking figure and has also triggered in-depth thinking about the future development of the industry. AI startup Cognition Labs, backed by well-known investor Peter Thiel, is seeking a valuation of $2 billion, and its valuation…