Recently, committed to creating a data and knowledge two-wheel drive of the next generation of AI Beijing Zhipu Huazhang Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Zhipu Huazhang") recently successfully completed the A round of financing of more than 100 million yuan, this financing by Dachen Caizhi, Huakong Fund, Jiangmen Investment, Nanjing Turing, Beijing Dafan, Tongzhi Investment, Zaozhuang Tongzhi, Rongpin Investment, Caizhi Chuangying, Ling Yunguang and other institutions joint investment, financing funds will be used for the expansion of new technologies and new products in the market field, the construction of talent team, and the continuous development of the underlying artificial intelligence system.
It is worth mentioning that Zhipu Huazhang previously participated in the preliminary round of the "Zhichuang Cup" Cutting-edge Technology Challenge Science and Technology Innovation Competition, and the roadshow moment witnessed the wonderful performance of the roadshow link of the Zhipu Huazhang project.
Founded in 2019, Zhipu Huazhang was transformed from the technical achievements of the Knowledge Engineering Laboratory of the Department of Computer Science of Tsinghua University. In the past 25 years, the Knowledge Engineering Laboratory of Tsinghua University has completed a series of internationally leading research results in the fields of knowledge engineering, knowledge graph, graph neural network and cognitive intelligence. With the support of Beijing Zhiyuan Research Institute, Professor Tang Jie, a laboratory teacher and chief scientist of Zhipu AI, formed the Wudao team and developed WuDao2.0, China's first and the world's largest large-scale pre-training model with 1.75 trillion parameters.
Relying on the R&D accumulation and talent advantages of the Tsinghua University team for many years, Zhipu Huazhang, as the main participant in research and development, landed on Wudao 2.0, and combined with the high-quality large-scale knowledge graph built by itself, it formed a two-wheel-drive artificial intelligence framework that integrates data and knowledge, thus breaking the ceiling that the current second-generation artificial intelligence technology has touched and leading the revolutionary wave of the third generation of artificial intelligence.
At the same time, Zhipu Huazhang has also built a developer underlying platform on this two-wheel drive artificial intelligence architecture, which is used to support the company's internal technical team, independent developers and third-party institutions to quickly and easily develop various artificial intelligence systems using powerful and general artificial intelligence capabilities on the platform, and finally form an artificial intelligence application ecology around the platform.
Wang Shaolan, CEO of Zhipu Huazhang, said: "Artificial intelligence has now entered a bottleneck period after the stages of symbolic artificial intelligence and perceptual artificial intelligence, and it is in urgent need of epoch-making technological innovation. Zhipu Huazhang hopes to play a leading role in this innovation, not only to promote the transformation of artificial intelligence technology, but also to develop the underlying artificial intelligence architecture that supports intelligent applications in different scenarios and different directions, empower developers in a large number of industries, form an intelligent application ecology, and thus change the business map of the field of artificial intelligence. ”
About the investor
Dachen Caizhi
Founded on April 19, 2000, Dachen is one of the first batch of local venture capital institutions established according to market-oriented operation in China, focusing on information technology, intelligent manufacturing, energy conservation and environmental protection, medical and health, large consumption and enterprise services, cultural media, military industry and other fields. Up to now, Dachen Caizhi has managed a total of 25 phases of funds, with a total management fund size of 36 billion yuan; more than 600 investment enterprises, and 212 have been successfully withdrawn.
Hua holding fund
Founded in 2007, Huakong Fund has a series of more than 20 sub-funds invested in VCs, PE, industrial funds, merger and acquisition funds, overseas funds, general aviation and military industry investment funds at different stages and different professional fields, with a management scale of more than 10 billion, and is committed to becoming the best private equity investment institution in China. The fund focuses on investing in leading enterprises in sub-sectors, focusing on: military and advanced manufacturing, new generation of information technology, new energy, new materials, medical devices, biomedicine and other high-speed development industries.
Will door investment
Jiangmen is a new venture capital institution with technological innovation as the entry point, founded by the founding team of the former Microsoft Venture Capital in China at the end of 2015. Shomun has Shomun Innovation Services, Shomun Technology Community and Shomun Investment Fund. Focus on technology areas include machine intelligence, the Internet of Things, natural human-computer interaction, and enterprise computing.