Recently, the dark side of the AI startup Yuezhi completed a new round of financing of more than 1 billion US dollars, with investors including Sequoia China, Xiaohongshu, Meituan, Alibaba, and old shareholders following the investment.
Founded in April 2023, Moonshot AI is the star startup in this AI wave.
CEO Yang Zhilin graduated from the Department of Computer Science and Technology of Tsinghua University with a bachelor's degree under the supervision of Tsinghua Professor Tang Jie. He studied at Carnegie Mellon University's Institute for Language Technology (LTI) under the tutelage of Ruslan Salakhutdinov, head of AI research at Apple, and William Cohen, chief scientist at Google. In 2019, Dr. Yang Zhilin graduated.
This is Yang Zhilin's second venture. In 2016, Yang Zhilin made his first venture during his second year of doctoral studies, and founded Circular Intelligence (Recurrent.).AI), the main business is to use AI technologies such as NLP, voice, multimodality, and large models to create "sales technology" solutions. According to reports, thousands of semantic models from different industries have been accumulated in the background of the recirculating intelligence AI system.
In 2023, Yang Zhilin will lead the original team of Circular Intelligence to establish the dark side of the moon, aiming at AGI.
Less than a year after its establishment, the dark side of the moon has completed the training of a 100-billion-level self-developed general model.
On October 9, 2023, the dark side of the moon launched the first large-scale model product, Kimi Chat, the core highlight of which is to expand the length of the context window, and Kimi Chat supports ultra-long text input of up to 200,000 Chinese characters. In November, Kimi Chat announced that it was fully open to the public and no longer restricted the eligibility for closed beta.
In terms of productization, the dark side of the moon is firm in the direction of To C, and Yang Zhilin believes that AI Native's products will generate new traffic entrances in the field of To C and become a super app in the AI era, which is a very big opportunity.
At the same time, the dark side of the moon is also developing its own general multimodal model, which is expected to be launched within this year.