The dark side of the moon is a dark horse in the field of domestic AI large models, and has received more than $1 billion in financing.
Recently, an AI startup called "The Dark Side of the Moon" has attracted widespread attention in China. It is reported that the company has completed a round of financing of more than $1 billion, with investors including Sequoia China, Xiaohongshu, Meituan, Alibaba and other giants, and old shareholders have also followed. This round of financing is the largest single round of financing received by a domestic AI model company so far. So, where is the dark side of the moon sacred? What is the story of the founder behind it? This article will demystify this AI startup for you.
Let's take a look at the background of the dark side of the next moon. According to public information, the dark side of the moon was established in xxxx year, and the core members of the founding team participated in the research and development of many large models such as Google Gemini, Google Bard, Pangu NLP, and Wudao, and a number of core technologies were adopted by mainstream products such as Google Palm, Meta Llama, and Stability Difusion. In less than a year since its founding, the company has already closed two financings. On February 19 this year, the dark side of the moon completed a new round of financing of more than $1 billion, with investors including Sequoia China, Xiaohongshu, Meituan, Alibaba, etc. In addition, Tianyancha shows that the last round of financing on the dark side of the moon was a $300 million financing obtained in June 2023, and investors include Sequoia China, Zheng**, etc. After two rounds of investment, the current valuation of the dark side of the moon is $2.5 billion.
The star founder team of the dark side of the moon is also in the spotlight. It is reported that the founder Yang Zhilin graduated from Tsinghua University with a bachelor's degree, graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a doctorate degree in computer science, worked in Google Brain and the American start-up FAIR, studied under Ruslan Salakhutdinov, the head of artificial intelligence at Apple, has many years of entrepreneurial experience, has cooperated with a number of Turing Award winners to publish **, is the earliest domestic large-scale model of "Pangu" and "Wudao" technical contributors. The founder, Yang Zhilin, is the most cited researcher in the field of NLP (Natural Language Processing) under the age of 35 in China. At the same time, the data shows that the founder Yang Zhilin is the most cited researcher in the field of NLP (natural language processing) under the age of 35 in China, and he is also the first two important articles of Transformer-XL and XLNet to be the core technology in the field of large language models. The other two co-founders, Zhou Xinyu and Wu Yuxin, both have 10,000+ Google Scholar citations.
On the product side, the most well-known product on the dark side of the moon is kimi in the WeChat mini program, which is called chat-gpt Chinese replacement by netizens, which can currently read 200,000 Chinese characters, is good at reading long texts, searching web pages, and can be used in scenarios such as meeting minutes, assisted programming, and copywriting. According to the "AI Product List AICPBP."com", in January 2024, the number of visits to the Kimi smart assistant reached 1.42 million, ranking among the "AI chatbots" products of large-scale model startups; The month-on-month growth rate reached 941%, and the growth rate is also ranked first among large-scale model startups.
As a dark horse in the field of domestic AI large models, the dark side of the moon has successfully attracted the attention of many capitals with its strong technical strength and excellent founding team. In the future, the dark side of the moon is expected to continue to lead the technological innovation and product upgrading in the field of domestic AI large models, and provide more intelligent services for the majority of users. Finally, let's look forward to more good news from the dark side of the moon in the future!