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On the first day of construction, new progress came from Hu Yuanming's side.
He founded the Tai Chi graphic, and officially announced the completion of the A round of financing——
$50 million, jointly led by Source Code Capital, GGV Capital, BAI Capital, and angel round investor Sequoia China.
At the same time, Tai Chi Graphics also announced its next stage goals -
In addition to continuing to develop and optimize the Tai Chi programming language, tools will be launched directly for creators of 3D digital content.
Less than 1 year after its establishment, Taiji Graphics has been favored by capital and has completed two rounds of financing.
In the business segment, the extension from the underlying infrastructure to the upper-layer application has also been completed.
What is the current Tai Chi Graphics company?
Two business segments
In the past, everyone was familiar with the 99-line code Taiji Taichi programming language that built Frozen.
So, from the beginning, they did work on the development and optimization of the open source infrastructure, the Tai Chi programming language Taichi, and in doing so built their presence in the open source community.
This language can quickly achieve physical special effects rendering, greatly reducing the programming threshold of computer graphics.
In a simple physical rendering scene, TaiChi is 188 times faster than TensorFlow and 13.4 times faster than PyTorch, while the code length is only one-tenth of that of other underlying methods.
It can also be embedded directly in Python, automatically generating CPU/GPU code compatible with various platforms, greatly improving program performance and liberating developer productivity.
At present, the project Github has received 18k stars and more than 150 contributors.
According to reports, Taichi has been used and jointly developed by researchers from hundreds of universities at home and abroad.
In September last year, Tai Chi graphics courses were also launched on platforms such as b stations and official video numbers.
The first quarter of study has now been completed.
△ Source: official public account, collection of part of the work
In addition to building and maintaining on the open source community, Tai Chi Graphics has also made progress in the industrial world, and various fluid effects based on Taichi's development have been deployed in several short video apps.
For example, the magic expression effect on Kuaishou.
In addition, based on the programming language Taichi and based on cloud native technology, Tai Chi Graphics developed Taitopia, a three-dimensional digital content creation cloud platform.
Also known as Tai Chi Kai Wu.
According to reports, on the platform, anyone can create their own digital content, and in the browser will share the work with one click, collaborate with others.
However, the platform is not yet online.
△ Source: Official public account
Completed 2 rounds of financing in less than 1 year
Looking back at Hu Yuanming's "Tai Chi Road" as a whole, it began with a paper he published at SIGGRAPH Asia 2019.
This was also the first time that "Tai Chi" appeared publicly, and soon after he open sourced "Tai Chi", and later "Tai Chi" was also selected for ICLR 2020.
Hu Yuanming and his Taichi language instantly caused a sensation in the computer circle and attracted a large number of developers.
At the same time, he also opened an online course in computer graphics to interact with the domestic academic community.
As Taichi's influence gradually expanded, Dr. Hu Yuanming chose to return to China to start a business after graduating from MIT.
Judging from the publicly disclosed information, Tai Chi Graphics was established on February 25 last year. However, in April, the company officially announced and opened for recruitment.
The list of team members includes Taichi contributors.
One of Taichi's core developers, former Google engineer Kuang Ye, is the co-founder and CTO of Tai Chi Graphics.
Kuang Ye graduated from the Department of Fine Instrumentation of Tsinghua University with a minor in computer science, and then went to Harvard University to pursue a master's degree in computer science.
Soon, they officially announced an angel round of multi-million dollar financing, led by Sequoia China.
Now, after obtaining a new round of financing, Tai Chi Graphics announced the direction of the next stage.
On the one hand, it strengthens the influence of the Tai Chi programming language in the field of parallel computing.
On the other hand, tools that are directly targeted at digital content creators are rapidly iterated on cloud platforms.
In addition, it is also particularly stated that it is in the continuous recruitment process.
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