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title: "Industry Report | April 2023 Global AIGC Monthly"
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# Industry Report | April 2023 Global AIGC Monthly

_Unique Research · Insight / industry monthly · May 9, 2023 · Full rewrite — not a stub_

**April flash:** Global AIGC financing **¥2.642B / 14 deals**; B+ (incl. strategic) = **96.37%** of amount; largest **OpenAI $300M** (Tiger, Sequoia, a16z, Thrive, K2, Founders Fund…). China: **¥580M / 10 deals**; largest **Baichuan Intelligence $50M**; China avg ~¥57.6M. Only 3 global rounds >¥100M (25%).

## 01.1 Global headlines

-   **Microsoft (Apr 12):** open-sources DeepSpeed Chat — train ChatGPT-class LMs with RLHF; claimed >15× train speed at much lower cost.
-   **Alphabet (Apr 20):** merges Google Brain + DeepMind → **Google DeepMind**. Also: on-device Stable Diffusion in ~12s via GPU-optimized diffusion inference.
-   **OpenAI:** ChatGPT Business (enterprise) in coming months — more data control; default: end-user data not used to train models (API policy).
-   **AWS (Apr 13–14):** genAI “full stack” + **Amazon Bedrock** API to AI21 / Anthropic / Stability / Amazon FMs.
-   **Adobe:** Premiere Pro text-based video edit (May target) — edit video like text.
-   **Apple:** engineers propose ChatGPT-class tech into Siri (approval uncertain given 12yr caution).
-   **Meta:** Zuckerberg — genAI “will touch every product”; more open-source path vs Google/MSFT/AWS.
-   **PwC US:** $1B over 3yrs into genAI with MSFT/OpenAI for tax/audit/consult automation.
-   **Stability AI:** open-sources **StableLM** (Alpha 3B/7B; roadmap 15–65B); CC 4.0 like Stable Diffusion.

## 01.2 China headlines

-   **Alibaba Cloud:** MaaS / PaaS / IaaS; Tongyi + enterprise LMs + ModelScope + APIs; all Ali products to plug LMs (Tmall, DingTalk, Amap, Taobao, Youku, Freshippo…). OPPO Andes joint LM infra on Tongyi; Geely/IM/Chery NEV/Haomo/Swire Coke/Bosideng/Zhangyue exploring.
-   **Baidu:** ERNIE Bot dedicated Android beta app (Apr 26) — voice I/O; assistants “Laowan” / “Xiaohua”; history; not synced with web.
-   **Tencent Cloud:** new HCC for LM training, ~3× prior performance; Robotics X TRX-Hand / TRX-Arm dexterous manip.
-   **SenseTime:** “Ririxin” LM suite (NLG, text-to-image, perception labeling, model R&D) + Chinese LM app platform “Shangliang”.
-   **Kunlun:** “Tiangong 3.5” invite test from Apr 17 — claims near ChatGPT / GPT-3.5 class with Qidian.
-   **Haomo:** DriveGPT (“Xuehu·Hairuo”) — first claimed autonomous-driving gen LM using human takeover data.
-   **iFlytek:** pretrain LM details at May 6 product launch. Zhihu “Zhihaitu AI” Chinese LM in beta.

## 02 Markets

**Secondary color (sample):** Q1 AIGC concept index +59.24% (Tonghuashun) lifts media + compute names. ChineseAll: AI hosts >180k audio hours / ~1k titles in 2022; RESTART metaverse on _The Wandering Earth_. BlueFocus 2022 ¥36.683B rev (−8.47%), net −¥2.175B (impairments); Q1’23 rev ¥9.774B (+25.6%), net ¥149M (+355%) — All-in AI / BlueFocus AI / “human+AI assistant”. DeepGlint 2022 first profit (rev ¥354M +20.5%; net ¥32.6M +147.7%). Jiecheng / Opera browser AI notes in CN tables.

**Primary global sample:** Narrato $1M seed (AirTree); Typeface $65M A (Lightspeed/GV/M12/Menlo — note dated Feb in CN). CB Insights: ~250 ChatGPT-concept startups; 33% no external equity; 51% ≤A; unicorns OpenAI $20B, HF $2B, Lightricks $1.8B, Jasper $1.5B, Glean & Stability $1B.

**Primary China sample:** DeepMusic multi-ten-M USD A+ (GGV/Fengyuan); Beibei Tech ¥100M B2 (Jufeng/Qingdao Wealth); Zhixiang Future seed (Alpha Commune + USTC experts); DeepLang ~$100M valuation new round (THUNLP/BAAI); **Baichuan $50M** (Wang Xiaoguan + friends; co-founder Ru Liyun); ModelBest multi-ten-M angel (Zhihu lead; Zhipu follow); Yunfu near-¥10M A (Yushi); Westlake Xinchen strategic (Tom Cat lead, BlueRun) — second round in a month after Mar 27 Pre-A (Baidu Ventures et al.); Wanxiang AIGC virtual-idol A2 (Porsche) also in month tables.

_Methodology: Xenniu; seed merged with angel; FX rules in CN. 5 CN images; attach on ingest._

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