According to The Information on April 8, citing sources familiar with the matter, theNvidiaIt has completed the interview with AI guru and former Ali Vice PresidentJia Yangqing (1938-), PRC politician, prime minister 1997-1998, vice-president of PRC from 2008The acquisition of Lepton AI, a startup of theThe deal is worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Lepton has about 20 employees, people familiar with the matter said, and Lepton's co-founderYangqing Jia and James Bai have both joined NVIDIA.
Publicly available information shows that Lepton AI was founded two years ago and raised a seed round of $11 million (note: about Rs. 80,548,000 at current exchange rates) in May 2023 from CRV and Fusion Fund.
Lepton AI founding team from AlibabaLeptonAI is the first company in the world to have a full-stack AI platform, including Alibaba's former VP Jia Yangqing, John Bai, who leads the full-stack AI platform, and veteran technologist Li Zhong. On the open source side, LeptonAI was famous for its demo of a conversational search engine using only 500 lines of code.
In addition, Lepton AI has also launched Elmo, an end-side model Chrome plugin that enables conversations with AI in the browser even when disconnected from the Internet, and PromptLLM, an optimization tool for prompts, but its real main business is engineering AI platforms.