{"id":32631,"date":"2025-04-09T11:05:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T03:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=32631"},"modified":"2025-04-09T11:05:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T03:05:38","slug":"%e6%b6%88%e6%81%af%e7%a7%b0-ai-%e5%a4%a7%e7%89%9b%e8%b4%be%e6%89%ac%e6%b8%85%e5%b7%b2%e5%85%a5%e8%81%8c%e8%8b%b1%e4%bc%9f%e8%be%be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/32631.html","title":{"rendered":"AI guru Jia Yangqing has joined NVIDIA, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to The Information on April 8, citing sources familiar with the matter, the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e8%8b%b1%e4%bc%9f%e8%be%be\" title=\"Look at the article with the label\" target=\"_blank\" >Nvidia<\/a><strong>It has completed the interview with AI guru and former Ali Vice President<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e8%b4%be%e6%89%ac%e6%b8%85\" title=\"[Sees articles with [Jayanqing] label]\" target=\"_blank\" >Jia Yangqing (1938-), PRC politician, prime minister 1997-1998, vice-president of PRC from 2008<\/a>The acquisition of Lepton AI, a startup of the<\/strong>The deal is worth hundreds of millions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32632\" title=\"05b1cce0j00sufkkl000vd000kd00dnp\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/05b1cce0j00sufkkl000vd000kd00dnp.jpg\" alt=\"05b1cce0j00sufkkl000vd000kd00dnp\" width=\"733\" height=\"491\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lepton has about 20 employees, people familiar with the matter said, and Lepton's co-founder<strong>Yangqing Jia and James Bai have both joined NVIDIA<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lepton AI founding team from Alibaba<\/strong>LeptonAI 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to The Information on April 8, citing sources familiar with the matter, NVIDIA has completed the acquisition of Lepton AI, a company founded by AI guru and former Ali vice president Jia Yangqing, in a deal worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Lepton has about 20 employees, and Lepton co-founders Jia Yangqing and James Bai have both joined NVIDIA, the people familiar with the matter said. Lepton AI was founded two years ago and raised an $11 million (note: $80,548,000 at current exchange rates) seed round in May 2023 from CRV and Fusion Fund, according to the company's public filings. Lepton AI's founding team is from Alibaba.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[239,6220],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-32631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-239","tag-6220"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32631","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=32631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32631"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=32631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}