January 27th. Yesterday, Big Model BusinessStep Star（StepFunOVER 5 BILLION YUAN B+ WHEELFinancingThe top single-financing record of the 12-month-long model track。
THE PARTICIPATION IN THE CURRENT ROUND OF FINANCE BY INDUSTRY INVESTORS, SUCH AS THE SHANGHAI ADVANCE FOUNDATION, THE NATIONAL LIFE EQUITY, PU DONG-SUK-SUK, XU SEOK CAPITAL, THE SIEMENS CREEK FUND, XIMEN GUO-KUNG TRADE AND CHINESE TECHNOLOGY, CONTINUES TO ADD TO THE LIST OF OLDER SHAREHOLDERS, SUCH AS QIN, ZHUANG AND THE FIVE SOURCES. THIS ROUND OF FUNDING WILL BE USED MAINLY FOR BASE MODEL DEVELOPMENT AND WILL ACCELERATE THE "AI + TERMINAL" STRATEGY。
On the same day, the star of the leap announced the chairman of the tech boardIngeFull-time director of the company, with overall responsibility for the strategic rhythm and technical direction of the company. Inge has previously been deeply involved in strategic planning for a step-by-step star, and its inclusion is seen as a key step in strengthening the capacity of companies to land their industries in the post-seasonal phase of the big model。
The scale of this financing is not only greater than the $500 million C round previously announced on the dark side of the month, but is also higher than the resource mobilization for the IQ and MiniMax IPO, one of the most recent events in AI capital markets。
In terms of team composition, the leap star consists of a number of core members with a deep technical background, including CEO Kang Dae-chung (formerly Vice President of Microsoft Global, IEEE Fellow), Chief Scientist Zhang Maun (one of the authors of the ResNet paper) and CTO Chu Yobo (former Technical Director of Google Cloud GPU)。
Over the past two years, the team has broken out of the 100-mode war, joined the first stage of the country's big model and continued to follow the pre-training route, building a complete model matrix covering language, multimodular, audio, action, etc。
Inge's additions complement the critical capacity of the leap star to land. As a co-founder of Invisible Technology, Inge has extensive experience in areas such as AIOT, the City-level Networking System, and its long-term focus on the "AI+ Terminal" path is highly consistent with the strategic direction of the leap star。
IN TERMS OF COMMERCIALIZATION, STEP-STARS HAVE WORKED IN DEPTH WITH 60% OF THE COUNTRY ' S HEAD SMARTPHONE BRAND, WITH MODEL INSTALLED OVER 42 MILLION UNITS, COVERING OPPOS, HONORS, MESMERISM, ETC., WITH AN AVERAGE OF 20 MILLION USERS PER DAY
IN THE AREA OF AUTOMOBILES, THE COMPANY, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THOUSANDS OF MILES OF TECHNOLOGY AND GLEANER, HAS INTEGRATED END-TO-END VOICE MODELS INTO SMART CABIN SYSTEMS, WITH A THREE-MONTH SALE OF CLOSE TO 40,000 AT THE GYLI GALAXY M9 AND A MILLION-DEGREE TARGET FOR A ROLLER STAR-MOUNTED MODEL THIS YEAR
In terms of technical routing, step-to-step stars adhere to the "innate multi-modular" strategy, which directly involves end-to-end training from text staggers to enhance the model's understanding of the physical world. Its audio model Step-Audio-R1.1 achieves global first on the list of authorities through MGRD technology。
INDGE’S PARTICIPATION MEANS THAT THE SKYROCKETING STAR WILL ACCELERATE THE STRATEGY OF “AI INTO THE PHYSICAL WORLD” AND CREATE A MORE CERTAIN COMMERCIAL CLOSED CIRCLE AT CONSUMER TERMINALS SUCH AS MOBILE PHONES AND CARS。