Unique Research · Company / funding · February 28, 2023
On Feb 28, 2023, generative AI platform Tiamat raised near-$10M Series A from DCM and Oasis Capital. Oct’22 angel was DCM-led multi-million USD. Proceeds: product polish, self-trained LM, commercialization.
Founded 2021 — self-developed algorithms/engines/platform for creative + ads for consumers and enterprises; sizable community + commercial clients in one year. Global generative-AI valuations ~$48B (6× in 2 years). Text-to-image / Diffusion wave democratizes art — vs artist protests. China C-end pay habit weak → ToB inevitable. Tiamat trains own models in sync with overseas open-source nodes since 2021.
Commercial partners: sci-fi IPs, CCTV.com, Harper’s Bazaar, Marie Claire, top game studios, Palace-Museum-related intangible-heritage IP Zhizaoyu — AI content in city public spaces and transit. Self-developed MorpherVLM: first China ~10B cross-modal model on concept-fusion paradigm; heterogeneous vision encode/decode + RLHF + fine-grained prompt–latent alignment.
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