Against the backdrop of the continuously expanding artificial intelligence field, Beijing Zhihu Zhang Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Zhihu") recently received a strategic investment of 500 million yuan from Zhuhai Huafa Group. This financing marks Zhihu's second round of funding within a month. Notably, Zhihu secured 1 billion yuan in investment from Hangzhou state-owned assets and other institutions in early March. This series of capital injections will help Zhihu promote the innovation and ecological development of its core technology—the GLM base large model.
On March 13, Zhuhai Huafa Group and Zhihu signed a cooperation agreement. Both parties will jointly build the first city-level GLM large model space, named "Zhihu + Zhuhai Huafa Space". As the largest state-owned enterprise in Zhuhai, Zhuhai Huafa Group has been actively deploying new productive forces in recent years, committed to promoting innovation and development of the local economy. According to official information, Zhuhai established a new productive forces fund in September last year, planning to jointly create a fund group with a total scale of 80 billion yuan with social capital, with Huafa Group acting as the manager of this fund.
Zhihu's CEO stated that the recent capital injection will bring more opportunities for technological innovation, further promoting the digital industrial transformation and upgrading based on artificial intelligence technology. Zhihu is committed to providing more efficient services to economic entities in Zhejiang Province and the Yangtze River Delta region, giving full play to the advantages of the regional AI industry and promoting local economic development.
In its future development, Zhihu will enhance its market competitiveness in the AI field through continuous technological innovation and ecosystem construction. Zhihu aims to apply its GLM large model to various industries, helping more enterprises achieve digital transformation to meet the challenges of the future intelligent era.