From the bud in March to the blossom in April, the tech industry is creating surprises in the name of innovation. AI content generation in the cloud is gradually approaching PCs, mobile phones and other terminals, and AI PCs are entering a new stage. The industry believes that "AI PC" has become the direction of PC manufacturers in 2024. In addition, the "low-altitude economy" is soaring in popularity and accelerating take-off. The "low-altitude economy" was written into the government work report for the first time at the two sessions of the National People's Congress this year. Experts believe that in recent years, the mainland has intensively introduced relevant industrial policies, deepened airspace reform, and promoted the low-altitude economy from exploration to development. The low-altitude economy has a strong industrial radiation force and is expected to give rise to a trillion-level industrial scale.
It is worth mentioning that in the field of low-altitude economy, Lenovo Venture Capital has already laid out representative enterprises such as zero-gravity aircraft industry, and will work with invested companies to promote the rapid growth of low-altitude economy-related industries by enhancing scientific and technological innovation and R&D efforts, and inject new vitality into the high-quality development of the economy and society. This month, we have compiled a list of the latest progress and trends of our portfolio companies in terms of financing, R&D, major achievements, market cooperation, awards and honors, etc., and look forward to establishing contacts with our portfolio companies to jointly promote the implementation of science and technology.
Nordic Intelligence
Nuodi Intelligence, a subsidiary, completed nearly 100 million yuan in Pre-A round of financing, focusing on "AI + manufacturing".
On April 16, Nuodi Intelligence, an industry model and application enterprise focusing on "AI + manufacturing", officially completed the Pre-A round of financing, which was led by Wu Yuefeng Science and Technology Innovation, followed by Trilobite Venture Capital, Qingzhi Capital, and additional investment by Lenovo Venture Capital, with a total financing amount of nearly 100 million yuan. This round of financing is mainly used for the continuous iteration and optimization of the industry mechanism of the Nordic "fulcrum" industry model, the continuous polishing and market expansion of the "AI + manufacturing" scenario solution, and the introduction of outstanding talents.
This core technology
This core technology has completed hundreds of millions of yuan in A+ round of financing.
Recently, the general intelligent CPU company of this core technology announced the completion of hundreds of millions of yuan A+ round of financing, this round of financing led by the national adjustment fund, this round of financing will be mainly used for continuous production and research investment and business landing, especially in the field of AI PC innovative technology research and development. Over the past two years, guided by market demand, this core technology has gradually established the "1+2+3+3" development strategy, that is, focusing on building a product series, deeply embracing the global and local two major ecosystems, strengthening the three core technology capacity building of CPU+GPU+AI, and empowering the three major computing platforms of personal computing, vehicle computing, and metaverse computing.
Smartmore
Smartmore: Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister visited and appeared on CCTV.
Recently, Smartmou's international influence has been continuously demonstrated through a series of exchange activities and advanced products. At the same time, the company's global business expansion has been steady, and it has won a number of new customers and orders at the beginning of the year. On April 11, Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinating Minister for Economic Policy Heng Swee Keat and a high-level delegation of the Singapore government visited Smartmou Technology, fully affirming the achievements of Smartmou in the field of intelligent manufacturing. In addition, IndustryGPT, the world's first industrial model developed by Smartmore, has received CCTV's attention twice in half a month. The authoritative endorsement of national media has opened up a new pattern for Simou to realize the leap of global brand potential.
Central control technology
ZKTeco won the bid for PetroChina's 100-million-yuan digital transformation project.
Recently, relying on its strong technical strength and service advantages, ZKTeco stood out among many bidding companies, won a large order with a total amount of more than 100 million yuan from PetroChina in one fell swoop, and successfully won the bid for the "PetroChina Jilin Petrochemical Transformation and Upgrading Project + Control Room Integrated Control System Hidden Danger Management Project Process Control System Framework Project" and "PetroChina Guangxi Petrochemical Transformation and Upgrading Project". With the industry know-how accumulated in the field of process industry as its core competitiveness, ZKTeco has developed a wealth of products and industry solutions, providing customers with intelligent solutions of "AI + safety", "AI + quality", "AI + low carbon" and "AI + benefits".
Project Light
Join hands with the invested company "Songzhi Intelligence" to jointly empower the start-up "Zhongke Yuanyi".
Recently, the cooperation signing ceremony with the theme of "hardware twin integration" was held in Lenovo Innovation Science and Technology Park in Shenzhen, and Lenovo Manufacturing as a Service and Lenovo Venture Capital invested company Songzhi Intelligence jointly developed intelligent manufacturing equipment based on digital twins for Zhongke Yuanyi, which will also be put into Lenovo's southern manufacturing base in the future, and Lenovo will provide manufacturing empowerment and other related services for Zhongke Yuanyi's "Smart Blood Pressure ECG Watch Project".
CATL
CATL was awarded the CCS "Product Inspection and Testing Agency Accreditation Certificate", the first company in the battery industry.
Recently, China Classification Society (CCS) issued the "Product Inspection and Testing Organization Accreditation Certificate" to CATL Testing and Verification Center in Ningde, Fujian Province. CCS is the most authoritative organization for product and type certification of ships in China, and all CCS-rated ships must obtain CCS type and product qualification certification for their batteries and core equipment products. This certificate is the first time that CCS has awarded it to a battery manufacturer, and CCS will also set up a project leader for the enterprise for the first time to provide better services for CATL.
Zero gravity
The electric aircraft project of Ruien Electric Aircraft, a holding subsidiary, settled in Pinghu City, Zhejiang.
Recently, at the site of the 2024 China Pinghu Aerospace Industry Development Conference, the Ruien electric aircraft manufacturing project jointly built by Zero Gravity Aircraft Industry (Hefei) Co., Ltd., Liaoning Ruixiang General Aircraft Manufacturing Co., Ltd., and Zhejiang Jiaxing Bolai Aviation Technology Co., Ltd. officially landed in Pinghu Dushan Port Town and settled in Pinghu Aerospace Industrial Park. In the future, the Ruien electric aircraft project will not only rely on the "two seas advantages" of Zhejiang Dushan Port Economic Development Zone and the industrial foundation of new materials, equipment manufacturing and modern logistics, but also give full play to the core expertise of participants such as zero gravity, Ruixiang and Paline in the fields of new energy aircraft development and low-altitude economic and ecological operation, promote industrial innovation with scientific and technological innovation, and lead a new era of green aviation.
Momentum for the intermittent
New progress in step-by-step power humanoid robots: running, climbing stairs.
Recently, the latest progress of the humanoid robot was revealed, and the CL-1 completed a step-by-step staircase and round-trip running, which has further improved the performance of real-time terrain perception, full-body motion control and hardware platform. Based on real-time terrain perception, the CL-1 progressively moves from lifting one step of stairs twice in the last demonstration to alternating between left and right feet and going up stairs step by step this time to achieve a more human-like dynamic staircase climbing effect. For the first time, the CL-1 shows the test screen of the humanoid robot running, and the CL-1 completes the whole process continuously and dynamically from standing, starting, accelerating, decelerating, stopping, and running back and forth.
Light Boat Smart Navigation
Qingzhou Zhihang will use one million NOA units on board to accelerate towards end-to-end.
At the beginning of April, the BEV "hyper-converged" perception and driving and parking integrated full-stack solution based on Journey ®5 will be delivered to the vehicle in full-scale mass production, becoming the leading high-end intelligent driving solution provider for NOA to deliver and get on the car. Qingzhou Intelligent Aviation has been repeatedly designated and favored by many leading car companies for mass production, and has been delivered to vehicles one after another, laying a new milestone for the high-end assisted driving solution of "Qingzhou Riding the Wind" to enter large-scale mass production, forming a replicable high-end intelligent driving mass production experience, and entering a new stage of large-scale mass production and delivery "from 1 to N".
Carbon and silicon wisdom
CarbonSilicon Intelligence brought DrugFlow to the NVIDIA GTC 2024 conference to build a molecular design platform based on generative AI.
NVIDIA recently hosted GTC 2024 at the San Jose Convention Center. As a start-up in the field of AI + life sciences, Silicon Carbon Intelligence has attracted the attention of NVIDIA from the beginning, joined the NVIDIA Inception Program in early 2023, and entered the final display link at the startup showcase held by NVIDIA in 2023, and won the final 10 "Honorable Enterprise Titles". At the GTC 2024 conference, Mr. Deng Yafeng, CEO of Silicon Carbon, was invited to participate in the recording of the speech "The Development and Empowerment of AI Startups in China" at the GTC Startup Special Conference, sharing the exploration and achievements of Silicon Carbon's wisdom in the field of AI + life sciences, as well as the support and help of NVIDIA, especially the Inception Program, for Silicon Carbon.
Megvii
Megvii Robot competed in the European market, and the flexible storage solution was unveiled at LogiMAT.
Recently, the 2024 LogiMAT Germany in Stuttgart came to an end. Megvii brought high-density storage and picking integrated solutions and a variety of new robot products to the exhibition, focusing on high-density storage and picking integrated solutions, and also exhibited a new four-way model for 1200*800mm European standard pallet size, as well as Megvii AMR T800. Through this exhibition, Megvii once again showed the Chinese solution of fully flexible logistics warehousing to customers in the European market, and had in-depth discussions with many European customers and partners.
Lanzhou Technology
Lanzhou Technology officially open-sourced the Mencius 3-13B large model, which can be commercialized with 0 threshold.
Recently, Lanzhou Technology has grandly launched its "one horizontal N vertical" Mencius large model series and product system at the large-scale model technology and product launch conference. Among them, the core of "one horizontal" - Mencius large model technology, after efficient iteration, Mengzi large model V3 version of Mengzi3-13B also officially met with you. On April 1, Lanzhou Technology officially announced that Mengzi3-13B is open source, which is fully open to academic research and supports free commercial use.
SemiDrive Technology
SemiDrive Technology and ROHM jointly developed an in-vehicle SoC reference design to help popularize intelligent cockpits.
SemiDrive Technology and ROHM, a world-renowned semiconductor manufacturer, have jointly developed a reference design "REF66004" for intelligent cockpits. The reference design mainly covers SemiDrive's intelligent cockpit SoC "X9M" and "X9E" products, which are equipped with ROHM's PMIC, SerDes IC and LED drivers. In addition, the REF66004-EVK-00X, a reference board based on this reference design, consists of three parts: the Core Board, the SerDes Board, and the Display Board.
Moore Threads
Moore Threads and Wuwen Core Dome have joined forces to open a new chapter of 100 billion large model services.
Recently, at the Wuwen Xinqiong AI Computing Power Optimization Forum and Product Launch Conference, it was announced that it had reached an in-depth strategic cooperation with Moore Threads, a leading domestic AI chip company. This powerful alliance aims to build a national large model computing computing service and cloud scheduling platform that integrates efficient computing power, convenient scheduling and stable operation based on the Moore Threads large model intelligent computing kilocalorie cluster Kuae (KUAE), and provides a complete turnkey solution for more users to carry out large model development, training, operation and application.
Turing Quantum
Turing Quantum officially entered the National Supercomputing Internet.
Recently, "Turing Quantum" officially entered the national supercomputing Internet platform. In this cooperation, "Turing Quantum" will give full play to its technical advantages in quantum computing, and take the lead in bringing three major products: TuringQ high-performance quantum solver, quantum computing development platform, and Turing Jinke financial solution, combined with the national supercomputing Internet platform, to provide users with fast, convenient, universal, safe and reliable quantum computing services. At the same time, "Turing Quantum" will rely on its own experience in building the first quantum artificial intelligence computing center and the first photonic chip pilot line in China, and work with the national supercomputing Internet platform to explore the integration and development of quantum computing, classical computing power and artificial intelligence, empower all industries, and nurture a new batch of new quality productivity.
OpenCSG
OpenCSG's CSGCoder code generation algorithm has passed the national algorithm security filing.
On April 11, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) released the announcement of the fifth batch of deep synthesis service algorithm filing information, and OpenCS's GCSGCoder code generation algorithm project was among them. The CSGCoder code generation algorithm is an algorithm designed for code generation by OpenCSG's algorithm team to be able to understand and analyze a large number of programming language structures and logic.
Flint
Two Ph.D.s. Suiguang were awarded the Ministry of Education's experts in key fields, promoting the reform of digital teaching in the era of spatial computing.
Recently, Dr. Dai Jingwen, CTO of Suiguang, and Dr. Hu Yongtao, Vice President of R&D, were awarded the experts of the Key Area Collaboration Group of the Teaching Resources Construction Project Management Office of the Ministry of Education for their outstanding contributions to the field of deep learning and digital teaching. In the future, spatial computing technology, which includes interactive forms such as mixed reality, will have an increasingly profound impact on the creation of teaching resources and the innovation of teaching methods.
Callisto
Ganymede was awarded the "National High-tech Enterprise" certificate.
Recently, according to the list of high-tech enterprises announced by the Office of the National Leading Group for the Identification and Management of High-tech Enterprises, Ganymede has been honored on the list with its excellent R&D strength and innovative achievements, and has officially entered the ranks of national high-tech enterprises. This not only highlights the company's outstanding achievements in product research and development and technological innovation in the field of automotive network security, but also reflects the comprehensive recognition of Ganymede in terms of comprehensive strength, innovation ability, development potential and market prospects, and also provides strong incentives and support for the company's sustainable development in the field of automotive network security.