According to reports from Intelligent Emergence, the Chinese AI model unicorn, Jumpspace, has recently completed a Series B financing round worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Core investors include Shanghai State-owned Capital Investment Co., Ltd. and its affiliated funds, with strategic and financial investors such as Tencent Investment, Wuyuan Capital, and Qiming Venture Partners also participating. This funding will primarily be used for the development of foundational models, further enhancing multimodal and complex reasoning capabilities, and expanding C-end application scenarios.
As one of the "Six Little Tigers" of domestic large models, Jumpspace is known for its solid technology and efficient output. Its self-developed Step series models cover various modalities including language, images, video, and voice, and have ranked high on multiple authoritative lists.
For instance, in evaluations by LiveBench and the LMSYS Chatbot Arena, its language model Step-2 and multimodal model Step-1V both ranked among the top of domestic models. The leading technological capabilities have paved the way for commercialization, attracting a large number of application developers, and the Step series models are widely used in popular applications on social networks, such as "Lyric Transformer" and "Stomach Book".
It is reported that CEO Jiang Daxin has gathered a team of top AI experts, leveraging his background at Microsoft Asia Internet Engineering Institute, including Zhu Yibo, former system leader at ByteDance, and Zhang Xiangyu, author of ResNet. They have efficiently promoted the development and training of models, with the billion-parameter model Step-1 completing training successfully in just two months.
Additionally, Jumpspace adopts a "self-research + ecological cooperation" strategy to promote commercialization. For example, it has launched the multimodal intelligent assistant "Jump Ask" and collaborated with mobile manufacturers such as Honor and OPPO to provide large model technical support for smart terminals. In the financial sector, it has partnered with Shanghai Daily to launch the vertical large model Finstep and the personal wealth assistant "Little Wealth God", accelerating the application in professional fields.
