Recently, reports surrounding Silicon-based Flow's completion of its Pre-A round of financing have sparked a discussion about the company's early development journey. According to a previous report by Venture Capital Daily, in the second half of 2023, DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng expressed an interest in investing in Silicon-based Flow, on the condition that they open-source their self-developed LLM inference engine, but this was rejected by Silicon-based Flow's CEO Yuan Jinhui.
In response, Yuan Jinhui today addressed the matter on social media, denying the aforementioned claims. He stated that his mention of not collaborating with Liang Wenfeng in 2023 was to express regret over his own lack of foresight, rather than a rejection of the investment proposal as reported.
It is understood that Silicon-based Flow, founded in August 2023, focuses on developing an AI infrastructure platform for the era of large models. The company aims to lower the barriers to developing and using AI applications through collaborative innovation in algorithms, systems, and hardware. Recently, the company launched the DeepSeek R1 & V3 enterprise-level services, offering clients various service model options, including dedicated instances, computing power management, private version MaaS, and an all-in-one machine based on Huawei's Ascend 910B.
The company has completed a Pre-A round of financing amounting to 100 million RMB by the end of 2024, demonstrating investors' confidence in its development prospects.