Unique Research · Company / financing · June 6, 2023
On May 30, 2023, AI interactive-content platform Waveform Intelligence (波形智能) closed a multi-hundred-thousand RMB seed exclusively from Oufang Angel (藕舫天使). Use: R&D, product iteration, ops/marketing.
AI-native “interactive content generation” for entertainment — tool-first → full entertainment value chain on self-built models. Differentiator vs most NLP apps: interactive long-text generation / infinite interactive content — beyond GPT API wrappers (long, interactive, personalized, multimodal = current model-boundary work).
CEO Jiang Yuchen: Zhejiang Univ Chu Kochen College → ETH Zurich AI PhD under Ryan Cotterell (NLG / LLM / long-form / MT); ex-MSRA LLM train/infer. COO Yu Teng: co-founder & SVP marketing of US-listed Zhangmen (ZME). Paper RecurrentGPT as early framework. Thesis: vertical end-to-end models > API glue on quality/cost (Apple vertical vs PC compatibility analogy). Gartner: genAI data share <1% → ~10% by 2025. Founded 2023; ZJU-heavy founding team.
Cap table chart in CN; attach on ingest. Author Jiacheng · Review Ski.
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