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title: "Langboat Raises Multi-Hundred-Million RMB Pre-A+ from ZGC Science City, Sequoia China & Sinovation"
author: "Unique Research"
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# Langboat Raises Multi-Hundred-Million RMB Pre-A+ from ZGC Science City, Sequoia China & Sinovation

_Unique Research · Company / funding · March 20, 2023_

**Langboat Tech** (澜舟科技) closed Pre-A+ led by Beijing Zhongguancun Science City Co., with **Sequoia China (Stones Capital)** and **Sinovation Ventures**. Founded 2021 — incubated from zero by Sinovation; founder Dr. Zhou Ming (ex-Tsinghua professor, CCF VP, Sinovation chief scientist). Open-source NLP LMs + engines for marketing, finance, cultural creative.

Early product: Mencius (孟子) light Chinese LM — #1 on CLUE, rivaling 100B-param peers (vs Tencent/Sogou). Mencius Cognitive Engine: search/gen/translate/dialogue + vertical SaaS (MT, assisted writing, doc processing). Hit product: Langboat Panda Novelist. Partnering ChineseAll (中文在线) on ChatGPT-class product from their Chinese corpus.

Kai-Fu Lee framing: AI commercialization still “first quarter”; ChatGPT pushed the game into Q2; AI 2.0 = 10× mobile-internet platform chance — China’s first real platform race. Big-tech LMs stay internal; SMEs lack access — Langboat fills the gap. Mar 14 Sinovation “AI 1.0→2.0” event: launched **Mencius MChat** controllable LM — vertical/regional fast-tune; roadmap 10B and 100B; chat/QA/translate…

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