Venus | Zhipu AI, the leader of cognitive intelligence, has completed hundreds of millions of yuan in round B financing, and continues to build high-performance 100 billion-level inclusive large models
2022/09/26 | Qiming Venture Partners
Recently, Beijing Zhipu Huazhang Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Zhipu AI") announced that it has received hundreds of millions of RMB in Series B financing . This financing is jointly led by Qiming Venture Partners. This round of financing will be used to continue to invest in building a high-performance 100 billion-level Pratt & Whitney model.
Zhipu AI was established in 2019. It was transformed from the technical achievements of the Knowledge Engineering Laboratory of the Computer Science Department of Tsinghua University. Relying on the team's technical accumulation in knowledge intelligence for more than ten years, Zhipu AI has gathered top technology research and development teams and senior consultants. Among the core team, CEO Zhang Peng graduated from the Department of Computer Science of Tsinghua University, Chairman Liu Debing is a disciple of Academician Gao Wen of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and President Wang Shaolan is a doctor of Tsinghua Innovation Leader.
Zhipu AI participated in the research and development of a super-large-scale pre-training model, built a high-precision general knowledge map, and organically integrated the two to develop a cognitive engine driven by two wheels of data and knowledge. The company's core technology won the second prize of the National Science Progress Award , First Prize of Beijing Invention Patent Award.
In the past three years, Zhipu AI has proposed a brand-new Model as a Service (MaaS) market concept, and created a large-scale cognitive model platform, digital human and scientific and technological intelligence products. The application units include: China Association for Science and Technology, Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission, Huawei, Tencent More than 1,000 enterprises and institutions. Zhipu AI also shoulders corporate social responsibilities, and has developed epidemic-oriented knowledge and epidemic maps, sign language digital human technology for barrier-free communication, etc., to promote social equality and progress.
Recently , GLM-130B, an open-source high-precision bilingual 100 billion model created by Zhipu AI in cooperation with academia and industry, supports both Chinese and English, and its performance exceeds GPT-3 on multiple public evaluation sets . At the same time, the model also supports various chips such as Nvidia, Huawei Ascend, Haiguang DCU , and Sunway supercomputer, and supports fast reasoning. Through quantification, only four Nvidia RTX3090s can run a 100-billion model, realizing a truly large-scale model. At the same time, Zhipu AI, together with Tsinghua University and Huawei, released the code generation model CodeGeeX, which can automatically generate code with just a few lines of comments, and can also realize automatic conversion between different programming languages with one click. The perfect choice for dreams.
Zhang Peng, CEO of Zhipu AI , said: "We have been striving to become a pioneer in the model service market— Model as a Service (MaaS) —, keeping our original aspirations, maintaining a learning attitude, and not forgetting our original dreams. Thanks to our expertise in the field of artificial intelligence Continuous and less error-prone R&D investment, Zhipu AI has taken a little detour, but there is still a long way to go. Realizing the integration of knowledge and large models requires a strong combination of industry, learning and research, and the creation of research ecology, hardware ecology, and smart computing. Ecology, application ecology, and organizational ecology. We are still learning and growing. We thank you for your trust and hope that you will be more patient. We firmly believe that we will be able to develop an artificial intelligence that is driven by data and knowledge and can think independently. Technology empowers thousands of industries.”
Wang Shaolan , president of Zhipu AI , said: " Zhipu AI brings together industry-leading talents, computing power and data. Our vision is to realize 'making machines think like humans', enabling technology to better serve the society, and supporting different The underlying artificial intelligence architecture of smart applications in different scenarios and directions, we continue to develop and strive to achieve the inclusiveness of artificial intelligence in the industry."
Zhou Zhifeng, partner of Qiming Venture Partners, said: "Qiming Venture Partners is one of the earliest and most active venture capital institutions in China to deploy artificial intelligence. The development of artificial intelligence in the past 10 years has focused on perception intelligence, especially breakthroughs in vision and voice technology. Next In a decade, artificial intelligence will move towards cognitive intelligence. The pre-trained large model is its core technical driving force and key infrastructure, allowing AI to absorb more knowledge to understand and think, and finally achieve cognition close to human level. At the same time, The pre-trained large model makes AI move from relying on manual parameter adjustment modeling to the stage of industrialization that can be replicated on a large scale. Zhipu AI is undoubtedly the leader in this field, creating an industry ecology based on large models and promoting large-scale commercialization. , has been applied in many scenarios of enterprises and governments, and has been verified by developers and researchers. We believe that Zhipu AI will be the leader in the development of cognitive intelligence."