According to Intelligent Eruption, embodied intelligent agent operating system developer Yunjinwei recently announced the completion of an angel round financing of several million yuan, led by iFlytek. This round of financing will be used for core technology product development and market ecosystem construction. Founded in June 2021, Yunjinwei focuses on the development of embodied intelligent agent operating systems. The company was founded by Dr. Wang Wenyu, former general manager of the hardware division of Yitu Technology, and co-founder Dr. Zhou Chang was formerly responsible for visual large model development at Alibaba's DAMO Academy for the Urban Brain. The team has received support from Ningbo's Yaojiang Talent Plan and Yongjiang Talent Engineering Plan.
AliCloud and leading large model enterprise Zero One Technology have announced an important strategic cooperation to jointly establish the "Industrial Large Model Joint Laboratory," marking deep collaboration between two tech giants in the field of AI. This cooperation will accelerate the transformation of large model technology into practical application scenarios and promote further integration of the industrial large model ecosystem. The newly established joint laboratory will cover three core areas: technology, business, and talent. By integrating the R&D advantages of both parties in the field of large models, the laboratory will focus on exploring next-generation foundational model technologies and will utilize AliCloud's capabilities.
As one of the most watched AI startups outside of OpenAI and Anthropic, Cohere was valued at $5.5 billion in July. One of the company's co-founders is an author of the paper 'Attention Is All You Need,' which is considered critical to sparking the revolution of large language models (LLMs). Headquartered in Toronto and San Francisco, Cohere focuses on providing AI solutions for enterprise clients, rather than pursuing a similar path as other companies.
Healthcare startup Pharos has recently launched an innovative AI solution aimed at streamlining the cumbersome process of submitting quality reports to external clinical registries by hospitals. The company has just completed a $5 million seed funding round led by Felicis, with participation from General Catalyst, Moxxie, and Y Combinator. In the current healthcare system, submitting quality reports to institutions such as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is an extremely time-consuming task.