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Big Model Unicorn Step Star Has Closed Series B Funding Totaling "Hundreds of Millions of Dollars," Says Source
According to 36 krypton "intelligent emergence" reported today, big model unicorn step leap star has completed the B round of financing, the total financing amount reaches hundreds of millions of dollars. The financing has the participation of state-owned capital, strategic and financial investors, the core investors include Shanghai State-owned Capital Investment Company Limited and its fund, and strategic and financial investors include 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 multimodal and complex reasoning capabilities, and increase coverage of C-end application scenarios through products and ecology. Jiang Daxin, CEO of StepStar, once said, "Unimodal - multimodal...- 2.3k
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New unicorn in AI programming! Cursor rival Codeium raises $150 million, valued at $1.25 billion
The AI programming field has become a hot commodity in the eyes of investors! After the AI code generation startup Cursor successfully obtained a $60 million Series A financing not long ago, another AI programming company Codeium has now obtained $150 million in financing. Codeium, a new unicorn in the AI programming industry, has just announced that it has completed a super strong round of financing, raising $150 million, making its valuation exceed $1.25 billion, successfully advancing to a unicorn company! This round of financing was led by General Catalyst, and existing investor Kleiner …- 17.5k
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Valuation: 16 billion yuan! AI chip unicorn Suiyuan Technology sprints for A-share IPO, Tencent holds more than 20%
There is another big news in the field of AI computing chips! Domestic AI chip design company Suiyuan Technology (full name: Shanghai Suiyuan Technology Co., Ltd.) has officially started the A-share listing guidance process. According to the latest announcement of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, Suiyuan Technology signed a listing guidance agreement with CICC on August 23, officially starting the A-share IPO process. According to the information, Suiyuan Technology was established in 2018 and focuses on the research and development of cloud computing products in the field of artificial intelligence. Their products cover AI acceleration cards, intelligent computing clusters, and related software and platforms. The company's founders Zhao Lidong and Zhang Yalin...- 7.7k
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It is reported that Google spent $2.5 billion to acquire AI unicorn Character.AI, and the founder led the team to "sell themselves to a big company"
According to Bloomberg, on Friday local time, the founders of AI unicorn company Character.AI, Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, and some members of the research team joined Google. The report quoted unnamed insiders as saying that existing investors will buy out the company's shares at a price of US$2.5 billion (currently about RMB 17.964 billion). This is higher than the previous valuation of the company of US$1 billion (currently about RMB 7.186 billion)...- 3.3k