Financing

On 30 January, according to Bloomberg, a new round of financing of up to $100 billion is being negotiated between Ingweida, Microsoft and Amazon, three of which may together contribute about $60 billion. This financing is still at an early stage, but on a much larger scale than previously anticipated in the market. According to the report, as an existing investor, Britain is discussing an additional $30 billion; the potential size of Microsoft is less than $10 billion; and the Amazon, as a new investor, may invest more than $10 billion, or even more than..

On January 27, the news was that yesterday, StepFun completed over 5 billion yuan B+-round financing, creating the highest single financing record for the 12-month-long model. 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 skyrocketing star announced that Inchzheng, chairman of tech..

On January 19, according to the British Financial Times, the venture capital Redwood will participate in a new round of financing for the artificial intelligence enterprise Anthropic. The financing target was $25 billion (note: the current exchange rate is approximately RMB 17,469.1 million) and the company ' s valuation will amount to $350 billion (the current exchange rate is about RMB 2.4 trillion), including the Singapore Government Investment Corporation (GIC) and the United States Investment Agency Coatue. The report says that the Singapore Sovereign Wealth Fund..

On 1 January, according to LateLatePost, an AI tool Kimi developer recently completed a $500 million C round of financing, with IDG leading $150 million, and older shareholders such as Ali, Tate, Wang Wei Wen oversubscribed, with a post-investment valuation of $4.3 billion. Later, according to LatePost, AI Tool Kimi developer's dark side of the month recently completed $500 million C-wheel financing, with IDG leading $150 million, over-subscribed, post-validation of older shareholders like Ali, Tent, Wang Wei Wen..

On 19 December, according to news reports, FIA reported that OpenAI was making preliminary negotiations with investors on a new round of finance, with the highest scale or $100 billion, with the company ' s valuation target of approximately $75 billion. According to the news, this potential financing will be one of the largest transactions this year and, if landed, OpenAI ' s valuation will leapfrog to close to 50% compared to about $500 billion in October this year. A number of foreign sources have previously reported that Amazon is negotiating at least $10 billion in investment with OpenAI, Ope..

On November 18, according to news, the Japanese artificial intelligence start-up company Sakana AI announced yesterday ' s local time that the company had raised about 20 billion yen (approximately 918 billion yuan) in the B round of financing with a post-investment valuation of about 40 billion yen (note: the current exchange rate is approximately 183.51 billion yuan yuan), and that its cumulative financing had increased to about 52 billion yen (the current exchange rate is about 2,386 billion yuan yuan). According to Japan, this round of financing also led to the creation of Sakana AI in Japan..

On October 24th, Liblibai announced that it had completed the $130 million B round of financing, which was co-financed by Redwood China, CMC capital and a strategic investor, despite the excess growth of older shareholders in capital, source capital, bright start-ups, and capital, which continues to be the sole financial adviser. It was reported that this was the largest single financing in the national AI application track since 2025, indicating that capital was shifting from a bottom model to an application level. Liblibai was founded at the end of 2023 and has grown to be China's largest multimodel..

On October 18, according to news from Bloomberg today, the first-in-the-art company that uses AI to generate music, Suno, is negotiating a new round of financing in excess of $100 million (note: the current exchange rate is about $709 million), with an estimated $2 billion, four times the previous round. Music-generation technologies, while alarming to users, are dissatisfied with artists and record companies. Suno has recently been negotiating with a number of large record companies to settle copyright disputes and clear up obstacles to future freer development. Suno used to get..

On October 18, the news that yesterday, AI Video Corporation Poet Technology announced the completion of the 100 million yuan yuan B+ round of financing, which was co-opted with investors such as Zhu Xianqing and Jubilee. On October 18, the news that yesterday, AI Video Corporation Poet Technology announced the completion of the 100 million yuan yuan B+ round of financing, which was co-opted with investors such as Zhu Xianqing and Jubilee. The company revealed that its annual recurrent income (ARR) has exceeded $40 million

On September 17, according to the news, nothing about the smart equipment company announced in the United Kingdom the completion of $200 million in C-wheel financing, tigers' world-wide awards, current investments in Google Wind, EQT, etc.; and the first time that Takatung and the Indian rich Nikhil Kamath had joined. Now, it is known that Nowting has shipped millions of pieces of equipment (including smartphones and headphones, etc.), and in 25 years, cumulative sales in history have exceeded $1 billion. It's interesting to note that Nothing's been painting the AI device pie since it was created, this time..

On September 17th, Figure AI, which developed human robotics, received over $1 billion in committed capital in a round of financing (note: the current exchange rate is about RMB 71.2.1 billion), bringing the company ' s valuation to $39 billion (the current exchange rate is around RMB 277.716 billion). If this deal is reached, the company will be among the most valuable start-ups. This round of financing was officially announced on Tuesday, and has actually advanced for most of this year. In February, Bloomberg reported that Figure was talking to investors about financing..

July 21 news, according to the first financial report, this morning, the thousand search intelligence announced the completion of 600 million yuan PreA + round of financing, led by Jingdong; by the inter-dynamics (LimX Dynamics) announced a new round of financing by Jingdong strategic investment; the crowd of robotics announced the official completion of the two rounds of financing, of which the A1 round of financing led by Jingdong. In this regard, the relevant person in charge of Jingdong responded that the company currently attaches great importance to technical hotspots, including body intelligence and large models. In the future, it will focus on supply chain scenarios, and continue to build a technological innovation ecosystem through internal technological innovation and external investment. ...

July 15, 2011 - According to a report by LatePoint, MiniMax, a large model company, is close to completing a new round of financing of nearly 300 million U.S. dollars, with a post-investment valuation of more than 4 billion U.S. dollars (28.696 billion yuan at the current exchange rate). Combined with public information, the domestic large model companies that have reached this valuation are MiniMax and Wisdom Spectrum. MiniMax completed a round of financing valued at $3 billion at the end of last year. In June, Bloomberg reported that MiniMax is...

July 9, 2011 - StarHaiMap announced today that the company has completed the A4 and A5 rounds of strategic financing, with a total amount of more than 100 million US dollars (current exchange rate of about 718 million yuan). The A4 round of financing was jointly led by Today Capital and Meituan Dragonball, followed by CICC Porsche Fund and Xianghe Capital, as well as old shareholders Mihayou and Wuxi Venture Capital Group; the A5 round was jointly led by Meituan Dragonball and Meituan Battle Venture, with over-investment from Beijing Robotics Fund, followed by Yizhuang Guodong Investment, and old shareholders such as IDG Capital, BV Baidu Venture Capital, Kefai Capital, Today Capital and Xianghe Capital, among others. ...

July 8 news, cloud deep science and technology official public number today announced that the completion of nearly 500 million yuan of new financing. This round of financing was jointly led by Dachen Caixin and Guoxin Fund, followed by Beijing Robotics Industry Development Investment Fund, Qianhai Maternity Fund, CCTV Fusion Media Fund, Fuzhe Fund, Huaying Capital, and Mutong Zhongda Investment, and continued to be supported by old shareholders, such as Junshan Capital, Fangguang Capital, and Acuity Brands Intelligent City Fund. According to reports, this round of financing will provide greater momentum for DeepCloud Technology in technology and product development, scene application and expansion, talent introduction and team building, etc., to further consolidate its quadrupedal robots in...

July 7 news, Star Era announced today that it has completed nearly 500 million yuan of Series A financing. This round of financing was jointly led by CDH VGC and Haier Capital, followed by well-known financial institutions and industrial capitals such as Houxue Capital, Huaying Capital, Xianghe Capital and Fengli Intelligence, and continued to be reinforced by veteran shareholders Qingliu Capital and Qingzhong Fund. China Renaissance Capital acted as the exclusive financial advisor for this round. This round of financing will be used for the research and development of humanoid robot hard and soft technology and mass production, to promote the "model - ontology - scene data" closed-loop flywheel high-speed operation. 1AI learned from the official information of Star Era, which was founded in August 2023, that the company has been working on the development of humanoid robots.

June 23 news, Galaxy General announced today that it formally completed a new round of financing of 1.1 billion yuan led by Ningde Times, and the cumulative financing of two years exceeded 2.4 billion yuan. This round of financing brought together Ningde era listed companies, CATL Capital, China Development Bank, Beijing Robotics Industry Fund, Jiyuan Capital and other investors. According to the introduction, in March this year, Galaxy General released the world's first humanoid robot intelligent retail solution, by wheeled dual-arm robot Galbot 24 hours a day in 50 square meters of unmanned stores to perform 500...

June 9 news, domestic AI startup SiliconFlow (SiliconFlow) announced today that it has completed hundreds of millions of yuan in Series A financing. This round of financing was led by AliCloud, followed by old shareholders Innovation Works and other organizations, with China Renaissance acting as the exclusive financial advisor. Yuan Jinhui, founder of Silicon Mobility, said, "As a professional player who has been deeply engaged in the field of AI infrastructure for many years, Silicon Mobility has effectively solved a number of major problems in the development of the domestic AI industry through continuous technological breakthroughs and product innovation. This year, with Alibaba Tongyi Qianqian Qwen, De...

May 12 news, the public number "intelligent emergence" today issued an article, the body intelligence company "self variable robot" recently completed hundreds of millions of yuan A round of financing, led by the United States group war investment, the United States group dragon pearl follow the investment. The article was forwarded by the official self variable robot. According to the article, this round of financing will be used to continuously accelerate the synchronous iteration of the full self-research end-to-end generalized embodied intelligence model and the robot body, as well as the cooperation and landing of intelligent solutions for multiple application scenarios in the future. In addition to the hundreds of millions of dollars of Pre-A++ round of financing led by Lightspeed Photosynthesis and Junlian Capital disclosed to the public in February this year, before the A round of financing from the variable...

May 6, according to the Financial Times, citing sources familiar with the matter, Anysphere, a developer of AI programming tools, completed a round of financing amounting to 900 million U.S. dollars (note: the current exchange rate of about 6.519 billion yuan), valuing the company at about 9 billion U.S. dollars (the current exchange rate of about 65.187 billion yuan). The round was led by Thrive Capital, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Accel...

May 6 (Bloomberg) -- Recraft, the breakout startup in image generation, announced that it has closed a $30 million (note: $217 million at current exchange rates) Series B round of funding led by Accel, with participation from Khosla Ventures and Madrona, among other investors. Recraft is headquartered in San Francisco, USA, and previously raised $12 million in Series A funding in 2024 led by Khosla Ventures. Recraft is based in San Francisco, U.S., and previously received $12 million in Series A funding led by Khosla Ventures in 2024.

April 25 (Bloomberg) -- Butterfly Effect, the Chinese startup behind general-purpose AI intelligence Manus AI, recently closed a $75 million (note: the current exchange rate is about 547 million yuan) round of funding, Bloomberg reported. The round was led by Benchmark, a leading U.S.-based venture capital firm, and also attracted participation from existing investors. According to people familiar with the matter, the round of financing has caused Butterfly Effect's valuation to soar to nearly 500 million U.S. dollars (about 3.646 billion yuan at the current exchange rate), a four-fold increase from the previous round. According to reports, Butterfly...

April 22, 2011 - On Sunday, 21-year-old Chungin "Roy" Lee announced that his startup Cluely has closed a $5.3 million (note: the current exchange rate is about RMB 38.674 million) seed round of funding from Abstract Ventures and Susa Ventures, according to TechCrunch. Abstract Ventures and Susa Ventures The San Francisco-based company specializes in an AI tool that it says allows users to "cheat in all scenarios. Clu...

April 18 news, on April 16, Beijing Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund announced that on the basis of last year's investment, it will continue to invest an additional 200 million yuan in Z.ai, to support the research and development of Z.ai's open-source model and open-source community ecological construction. According to Beijing Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund, Z.ai is the first AI large model enterprise invested by the fund since its establishment, and it is also the fastest growing enterprise at present. Wisdom Spectrum has a comprehensive accumulation of modeling capabilities including text, inference, voice, image, video, code, etc. In addition, it has a perfect commercialization layout, and has the ability to develop open source models and open source community ecology. In addition, the commercialization layout is perfect, with more than one million scale...