{"id":25539,"date":"2024-12-23T20:10:57","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T12:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=25539"},"modified":"2024-12-23T20:10:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T12:10:57","slug":"%e6%b6%88%e6%81%af%e7%a7%b0%e5%a4%a7%e6%a8%a1%e5%9e%8b%e7%8b%ac%e8%a7%92%e5%85%bd%e9%98%b6%e8%b7%83%e6%98%9f%e8%be%b0%e5%b7%b2%e5%ae%8c%e6%88%90-b-%e8%bd%ae%e8%9e%8d%e8%b5%84%ef%bc%8c%e6%80%bb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/25539.html","title":{"rendered":"Big Model Unicorn Step Star Has Closed Series B Funding Totaling \"Hundreds of Millions of Dollars,\" Says Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As reported today by 36 Krypton's Intelligent Emergence.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e5%a4%a7%e6%a8%a1%e5%9e%8b\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [large models]]\" target=\"_blank\" >Large Model<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e7%8b%ac%e8%a7%92%e5%85%bd\" title=\"[Sees articles with unicorn labels]\" target=\"_blank\" >unicorn<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e9%98%b6%e8%b7%83%e6%98%9f%e8%be%b0\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [Step Star]]\" target=\"_blank\" >Step Star<\/a>Completed Series B<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e8%9e%8d%e8%b5%84\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [financing]]\" target=\"_blank\" >Financing<\/a>Total Financing Amount<strong>Hundreds of millions of dollars<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25540\" title=\"e1dd05dfj00soy4eu00d2d000e8009kp\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/e1dd05dfj00soy4eu00d2d000e8009kp.jpg\" alt=\"e1dd05dfj00soy4eu00d2d000e8009kp\" width=\"512\" height=\"344\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The financing has<strong>State-owned, strategic and financial investors<\/strong>A number of other participants, including core investors including Shanghai State-owned Capital Investment Company Limited and its funds, strategic and financial investors including Tencent Investment, Wuyuan Capital, Qiming Venture Capital and so on.<\/p>\n<p>The financing is used to continue to invest in basic model research and development, strengthen the multimodal and complex reasoning capabilities, and increase the coverage of C-end application scenarios through products and ecology. Jiang Daxin, CEO of StepStar, once said, \"We will continue to invest in basic model research and development.<strong>Unimodal - Multimodal - Unification of multimodal understanding and generation - World model - AGI (General Artificial Intelligence)<\/strong>\"This is the development route that StepStar has been planning since the first day of its establishment, which is similar to the path of \"ChatGPT to Sora\".<\/p>\n<p>StepStar has already launched the intelligent assistant \"Leap Ask\". Photo Ask\", a multimodal intelligent visual search function based on self-developed visual understanding model, is<strong>The first in China to be integrated into<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>iPhone 16<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Camera Controls<\/strong>The big model product function in the. In addition, according to AI's previous report, Step-1o launched Step-1o 100 billion parameter end-to-end speech big model this month, which is said to be \"the first 100 billion parameter end-to-end speech big model in China\".<\/p>\n<p data-vmark=\"123a\"><strong>Related reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"small-size list-paddingleft-2\">\n<li>\n<p data-vmark=\"4fe1\">\u300a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/25139.html\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Step-Star launches China's first end-to-end speech grand model with hundreds of billions of parameters \" Step-1o\"<\/a>\u300b<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACCORDING TO KRYPTON'S \u201cINTELLECTUAL EMERGENCE\u201d TODAY, THE BIG MODEL UNICORN STEP STAR HAS COMPLETED THE B ROUND OF FINANCING, TOTALLING HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. THIS FINANCING INVOLVED A WIDE RANGE OF NATIONAL CAPITAL, STRATEGIC AND FINANCIAL INVESTORS, INCLUDING SHANGHAI STATE CAPITAL INVESTMENT LTD. AND ITS FLAGSHIP FUNDS, AS WELL AS STRATEGIC AND FINANCIAL INVESTORS, SUCH AS TELECOMMUNICATION INVESTMENTS, FIVE-SOURCE CAPITAL, AND INNOVATIVE INVESTMENTS. THIS FINANCING IS USED TO CONTINUE TO INVEST IN BASIC MODEL DEVELOPMENT, TO ENHANCE MULTI-MODULAR AND COMPLEX REASONING CAPABILITIES AND TO COVER C-END APPLICATIONS THROUGH PRODUCT AND ECO-ENRICHMENT. CEO KANG DAE-JUN ONCE STATED THAT \u201cONE-MODULAR \u2014 MULTI-MODULAR \u2014 UNIFIED \u2014 MULTI-MODULAR UNDERSTANDING AND GENERATION \u2014 WORLD MODEL \u2014 AGI (GENERAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE)\u201d IS THE PATH PLANNED FOR THE FIRST DAY OF THE LEAP, ALONG WITH \u201cC\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[216,3864,421,1893],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-25539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-216","tag-3864","tag-421","tag-1893"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25539"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=25539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}