Unique Research · Company / funding · May 24, 2023
On May 22, 2023, distributed AI train/deploy platform Luchen Tech (潞晨科技) closed a multi-hundred-million RMB Series A led exclusively by BlueRun Ventures (蓝驰创投) — also angel lead. Third round in 18 months since founding; proceeds for team + expansion.
Founded 2021 by You Yang (Berkeley / NUS distributed computing, ML, HPC; ImageNet & BERT training speed records). Mission: cut LM landing cost, lift train/inference efficiency.
Products: open-source Colossal-AI (~30k GitHub stars) + enterprise PaaS — (1) heterogeneous memory (GPU→CPU→NVMe dynamic offload; GPT-3 175B ≈ 800G params / ~3.2TB with grads+optimizer); (2) efficient N-dim parallel (2D tensor parallel — with 10k machines talk to ~99 peers not 9,999); (3) low-latency inference (memory + tensor parallel + prune/distill). Train via PaaS or Luchen-assisted; live in AV, cloud, retail, pharma, chips, finance. 2023 revenue outlook 3–5× YoY; hiring MLOps / LM / framework talent.
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