Unique Research · Company / weekly financing · September 5, 2023
- Anthropic — $100M from SK Telecom (Aug 14) to strengthen telecom-driven AI. Competes with OpenAI on foundation models; among best-funded AI cos; raised $450M in May from Google, Spark Capital et al.
- Zhongke Jiahe (中科加禾) — multi-ten-million RMB seed (Aug 15); BV Baidu Ventures lead; Chenshan, Lushi, MiraclePlus, Cambricon, Tianchuang, Photosynthesis Fund. Chip compile/optimize infra; founder Cui Huimin (Tsinghua CS; CAS ICT compile lead). Virtual-ISA JVM-like cross-platform backend to fix fragmented domestic-chip compile stacks. Flagship: multi-chip LLM inference optimize tool; partners head AI chip/HW vendors; model: chip co-dev, licenses, cloud/DC. Aims more efficient, general compute optimization for China’s chip stack.
- Voiceflow — $15M (Aug 16); OpenView lead; total $35M; valuation +50% to $105M. Expand end-to-end Agent build/host; LLM AI Builder for CS and internal automation Agents. Conversational design → prototype → hand-off to platform engineering.
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