The popularity of AI in China is self-evident. Today, a Chinese AI “unicorn†invested by Ali is also listed.
Desperate Technology Face++ received $460 million in investment in November 2017, with strategic investments such as state-owned capital venture capital funds, Ant Financial and Foxconn. The media obtained the material, the company's current valuation is 1.46 billion US dollars, is expected to be listed in the first quarter of 2019.
In response to the news of the listing, all-weather technology has turned to contempt for technology and the other party declined to comment.
Defiance Technology is not only the leading artificial intelligence company in China, but also the main technology provider for face recognition and online identity verification such as Alipay, Today's headlines, and Didi. If it is listed, this may open the IPO curtain of China's AI "Unicorn" invested by Ali.
For the Internet giant, layout AI is in the future. "Golden Lord" Ali's layout and strategic investment in AI is definitely a big deal.
From the investment layout of the last two or two years, from the top companies in the field of AI chips, Cambrian, Shen Jian Technology, to the unicorn business soup technology in the field of computer vision, and contempt for technology, Ali has already exhausted all of it. Among the AI ​​chess games.
On November 28, 2017, the reporter quoted sources as saying that Alibaba had invested 1.5 billion yuan in AI Unicorn Company, Shangtang Technology. After this round of financing, Shangtang Technology will have a valuation of more than US$3 billion ( About 19.8 billion yuan). However, both investors and investors are currently not commenting on this.
Earlier, Reuters reported that Shangtang Technology is planning an IPO. All-weather technology has confirmed this information to Shangtang Technology. The reply is: "The company has a future listing plan, but there is no specific timetable."
Shangtang Technology is a technology company specializing in computer vision and deep learning technology. It has technical breakthroughs and business layouts in face recognition, image recognition, video analysis, and driverless. Its business covers security, finance, and intelligence. Mobile phones, robots and automobiles. According to the official data disclosed by Shangtang Technology, it currently serves more than 400 customers. China Mobile, UnionPay, Huawei, Xiaomi and Weibo are all customers.
For Ali, this is just two of the cases in which it invests in the AI ​​space. Previously, the news about its investment in AI unicorns was too numerous to mention.
Ali takes the Chinese AI UnicornIn the field of artificial intelligence technology, Ali has never been embarrassed.
On October 31 last year, Vision Technology announced the completion of the 460 million US dollars D round of financing, including ant Jinfu, Sino-Russian investment funds and South Korea's Xianjing Group. This financing amount has set a single highest financing record in the global artificial intelligence field. After this round of financing, the defying technology valuation will reach at least 1 billion US dollars. As early as 2014, Defiance Technology had a strategic investment in Ant Financial.
Earlier in August, AI chip company Cambrian completed a $100 million Series A financing, from SDIC entrepreneurship, Alibaba Venture Capital, Lenovo Venture Capital, Guoke Investment, Zhongke Turing, Yuanhe Origin, Yong Investment in joint investment. After completing the A round of financing, the Cambrian became the first unicorn start-up company in the global AI chip field.
Today, Shangtang Technology, which has not yet confirmed its investment, has also been confirmed to be in the C round of financing, with a valuation of over US$3 billion after financing. In the last round of financing, Shangtang Technology set a single highest financing record in the global artificial intelligence field with a financing amount of 410 million US dollars, ranking among the ranks of AI unicorns.
Previous public information shows that in the past two years, Ali has invested in at least five companies in the field of AI chips. In 2007, Ali invested in the Cambrian, and also included Shen Jian Technology, Kneron.
In 2016, Ali also led a ten-dollar financing of Barefoot Networks, the US AI chip company, with Tencent. The company's last round of investors included Google. The company developed the world's first programmable chip; the report said that the chip called Tofino can process network packets at 6.5 megabits per second, twice as fast as any chip on the market today.
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