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# Insight | Global AIGC Industry Monthly Report — November 2023

_Unique Research · Insight / industry monthly · December 18, 2023 · Unique Research AIGC desk_

**Contents:** 01 Recent deal overview (1.1 Secondary market · 1.2 Primary market) · 02 Industry briefing (folded into deal notes in this CN edition) · 03 Report statement.

## 01 · November deal overview

### 1.1 Secondary market

Per East Money data, as of **30 November** the AIGC concept sector index closed at **1,541.81** (+**8.59%**), turnover **RMB 796.4B**, turnover rate **92.73%**.

Top-5 gainers: **ChineseAll (中文在线, 300364)** 29.49 / +128%; **Zhongcheng Tech (众诚科技, 835207)** 8.57 / +79%; **Huaxin Yongdao** 14.23 / +53.7%; **Gravity Media (引力传媒)** 14.99 / +58%; **Guomai Culture (果麦文化)** 55.47 / +45%.

#### ChineseAll (中文在线)

Founded at Tsinghua in **2000**; listed on ChiNext **21 Jan 2015** as China’s “first digital-publishing stock” (300364). Digital culture group spanning content production, rights distribution, IP derivatives, and IP protection under the strategy “solid content, serve industry, win on IP, dual-wheel drive.” Sources include original platforms, known writers, and rights houses — **5.5M+** digital titles, **4.5M** resident web-fiction authors; platforms include 17K, April Day, sci-fi label “Qi Xiang Universe,” suspense label “Mi Xiang Jihua.” In 2013, under China Writers Association guidance, launched Net Literature Open Course. Aggregates and distributes digital reading across terminals; develops audio, short/mid drama, anime, film/TV, and merchandise from literary IP. IP team has pursued ~**10,000** rights cases covering **100,000+** works; blockchain products “Quanshao” and “Wuchao” protect authors. Overseas interactive visual-reading product Chapters leads its niche. Exploring digital collectibles, virtual humans, IP metaverse, VR film/anime.

#### Zhongcheng Tech (众诚科技)

BSE-listed (835207) digital-government / industry digital-transformation / metaverse (twin & virtual-sim) solutions provider; MIIT first-batch “little giant.” Dual tech stacks (Xinchuang / non-Xinchuang) around digital infra; four cores (Xinchuang ecosystem, Huawei partnership, data & security, twin & virtual-sim) and five capabilities (digital twin, data governance, SI management, rapid dev, security & ops). CMMI Level 5; Huawei SI partner. Engines include 3D design, VR edit, 3D render, collaborative network, distributed sim, BIM, workflow, low-code, OCR, NLP, knowledge graph; co-authored national digital-textbook metadata standard GB/41469-2022. Products span unified portals, low-code, data mid-platform, OA, archives, smart Party-building, epidemic tools, security, virtual-lab teaching, education cloud, and zero-code 3D / VR / twin systems for buildings, parks, factories, cities.

### 1.2 Primary market

In **November 2023**, global AIGC financing totaled **RMB 12.9B** across **57** deals — hotter than October. Series B+ (incl. strategic) took **92.4%** of global volume. Largest single check globally and in China context: **Aleph Alpha** (Bosch-led). Deals above RMB 100M: **17** (**29.8%**). China AIGC financing: **RMB 3.288B** / **33** deals (both up MoM); top China check **01.AI (零一万物)** at **\>RMB 700M**. (CN note also cites Sep national average ticket RMB 51.11M.)

### 1.2.1 Overseas financings

**Mistral AI** — Bloomberg (5 Dec): late-stage round raising **$487M** (~€450M) from Nvidia, Salesforce et al. at ~**$2B** valuation. French LLM startup founded May 2023 by ex-DeepMind/Meta scientists Arthur Mensch (CEO), Guillaume Lample, Timothée Lacroix; known for Mistral 7B.

**Modulus Labs** — **$6M** seed led by Variant & 1kx; Inflection, Bankless, Stanford; angels incl. Ethereum Foundation, Worldcoin, Polygon, Celestia, Solana. ZK proofs to verify AI systems / untampered queries for Web3.

**Induced AI** — Sam Altman-backed 5-person RPA team; co-founders Aryan Sharma & Ayush Pathak (18 & 19) with prior ventures across health, ads, edu, crypto/Web3. “RPA 3.0”: English workflow + screen recording → pseudocode + tools for repetitive work.

**HydroX AI** — founded Jul 2023, California; AI Safety / Safe AI for model labs and B2B users. Oasis Capital-backed (per CN). End-to-end platform: detect → remediate → continuous monitor; expanding detection libraries for dynamic attack/defense.

**Aleph Alpha** — German “local OpenAI”; **\>$500M** Series B total (announced 6 Nov). Data-sovereignty pitch: store/process European model data in Germany/Europe.

**Black Ore** — a16z & Oak HC/FT; flagship Tax Autopilot compresses CPA tax prep/review from days to seconds, SOC-2 encrypted portal. Founders Eyal Shinar (ex-Fundbox unicorn CEO) & Pavel Kapovski (ex-CME Group ML R&D).

**Eleos Health** — **$40M** Series B led by Menlo Ventures; F-Prime, Eight Roads, Arkin Digital Health, SamsungNEXT, ION; total raised **$68M** (8 Nov). Behavioral-health conversation → documentation/intelligence via proprietary BH LLM; funds product (group therapy, compliance automation, case management, concurrent docs, value-based care), hiring, EMR/association partnerships.

**EarnBetter** — **$4.5M** seed led by a16z & Abstract Ventures; free AI job assistant that reformats resumes in minutes, drafts cover letters in seconds, scans millions of jobs for matches. CEO Tuck Hauptfuhrer: job search is brutal; AI can save time.

**Stability AI** — ~**$50M** via convertible notes (Oct deal) with Intel Capital; after $101M seed / $1B unicorn claim in Oct 2022, higher-valuation raise stalled.

**Era** — Northzone; AI personalized wealth advice + automated money tasks (tax estimates, transfers) fed by market news and macro data. Founders Alex Norcliffe (CEO) & Lindsay Brady (COO).

**Atlas.AI** — ~**$6M** seed (6th Man Ventures); two years stealth on enterprise/commercial GenAI XR content creation — text/image → 3D XR for marketing-to-gaming; expands developer pool as headsets cheapen.

**Civitai** — **$5.1M** seed led by a16z; Justin Maier’s AI content community for sharing trained image models and outputs; ~**3M** registered, **12–13M** MAU.

**Augmentus** — Singapore no-code robot software; **$5M** Series A (Sierra Ventures). Founded 2019; 3D-camera vision + AI motion planning cuts programming from ~4 weeks to **15 minutes** and >**70%** cost (software is ~75% of robot lifecycle cost). Target: 90 customers / 200 robots next year.

**Cytovale** — **$84M** Series C led by Norwest; Sands Capital, Global Health Investment Corp. Single-cell blood analysis via microfluidic chip + machine vision; IntelliSep returns results in <**10 minutes** for early sepsis decisions.

**CreateSAFE** — Polychain Capital; music-tech studio co-founded by Grimes’s manager Daouda Leonard. Triniti AI music platform lets artists create with Grimes voice clones sharing 50% royalties; Elf.Tech open-source voice prototype already produced 1,000+ Grimes-clone tracks; Grimes joined advisory board.

**AI21 Labs** — **$53M** Series C extension (21 Nov) with Intel Capital & Comcast Ventures; total raised **$336M** at **$1.4B** valuation. CEO Ori Goshen: product + hiring.

**CentML** — **$27M** seed led by Gradient Ventures (Google AI fund) with Radical, NVIDIA, Deloitte Ventures, Thomson Reuters Ventures, Azure AI VP Misha Bilenko; prior $3.5M pre-seed (Jun 2022); cumulative **$30.5M**. Bay Area office; double 32-person team by end-2024. Deloitte/TR engineering to become customers.

### 1.2.2 Domestic financings

**Haina AI** — multi-tens-of-millions RMB Series A, Lenovo Capital sole; talent, model R&D, marketing. Vertical AI interview product under Beijing Qunxing ShanYao since 2019.

**Chutzpah** — MiraclePlus (奇绩创坛); Data+Ontology enterprise decisioning (energy & legal first) — Chutzpah Enterprise / Chutzpah Legal. Co-founders Yu Qingyuan (serial; ex-VBDATA 35Dou COO, U-Kitchen) & Wang Hairong (7 yrs enterprise digitization; ex-Mubai CTO); legal lead Sun Nannan (7-yr partner lawyer).

**01.AI (零一万物)** — Kai-Fu Lee’s AI 2.0 firm; **$1B** new round led by Alibaba Cloud (Tianyancha). On 6 Nov open-sourced bilingual Yi model on ModelScope; commercial license applications open. Lee: aim World’s No.1 from first hire and first line of code.

**Yikong Intelligent Driving (易控智驾)** — nearly **RMB 400M** equity financing led by Xingfu Capital; Shenwan Innovation, Chen Tao, Xinghang State Investment follow. Founded May 2018; open-pit mine AV transport; claims sole player with drive-by-wire full-vehicle R&D plus 100-unit-class commercial mine-truck copy.

**Agaris (阿加犀)** — nearly **RMB 100M** Pre-A+ (8 Nov) led by Shenergy Chengyi; Sichuan Development Academician Fund. Chengdu AIoT AI platform/products for global customers.

**Luchen Tech (潞晨科技)** — nearly **RMB 100M** A+ led by a Fortune 500 tech giant; GBA Fund & Singtel Innov8. ZhenFund prior angel. Colossal-AI deep-learning system: **35k+** GitHub stars (#1 in niche); ColossalLLaMA **180k+** HF downloads in three weeks; appliance + cloud revenue rising. Founder You Yang is ZhenFund Star camp alum.

**Xinghai Tu Tech (煋海图)** — GSR Ventures & Baidu (Sanya Baichuan) enter; capital up from RMB 0.5M to ~0.6048M. Founded Sep; industrial/intelligent robots, AI base software, industry AI SI. Legal rep Gao Jiyang.

**Jirui Tech** — multi-tens-of-millions USD B led by Shunwei (see also go-global monthly twin); AI e-commerce full-link content factory since 2017; prior Sequoia/Turing A, GSR/Magic Quantity Pre-A.

**Zhenjiankang (真健康)** — >RMB 100M B+ (CICC Capital / Yari Capital portfolio); surgical robots, core parts, AI apps.

**Yixing Intelligent (奕行智能)** — >RMB 100M Pre-A+ led by Guangzhou Nansha Nanjin Fund; Lion City Capital (OCBC) follows. Founded Jan 2022; three rounds totaling >$100M from GAC Capital, Oriental Fortune, Heli, Yuexiu, Linxin, Volcanic Stone, Yipu, Guochuang Zhongding, Boli, etc. Funds AI LLM on-device/vehicle chip stack and mass production of taped-out chips.

**Dingmao Tech (鼎茂科技)** — RMB 100M-class Series B from Zhangjiang Sci-Tech, Guotai Junan Zhengyu, Jiuli; Yonghua & Binfu follow; Yuewei Capital exclusive FA. AIOps platform; China AIOps market ~$145M (2020) → $1.52B (2028e), ~34.8% CAGR (The Insight Partners); Gartner penetration still only 5–20% of target audience.

**Kattegat (卡特加特)** — nearly RMB 100M across Pre-B (Jinan Licheng Holdings sole) + B (Zhongguancun Collaborative / Qingtian Industry Fund sole). Home AI system: Xuanwu LLM + Benteng OS IoT OS as home supercompute/interaction entry; health, education, life, work; home data bank.

**CreativeFitting / Jingying Tech (井英科技)** — multi-million USD Pre-A (20 Nov) from Linear Capital & Zhonglin. Self-developed high-quality video model for AI short dramas; plans world’s first AI short-drama consumer app. Founded Jun 2021; “AI+human” commercial short-video pipeline from ideation → script → production; signed tens of top customers across e-comm, finance, games in EU/US, SEA, LatAm, MENA.

**Kuanfen Tech / Realcome (宽粉科技)** — multi-tens-of-millions RMB round led by Sirius Capital (second raise in six months). AI virtual-KOL brand: fusion LLMs, virtual hosts, dialogue analytics, platform integration, user tagging for MCNs/brands/creators.

**Ruisi Zhixin (锐思智芯)** — multi-100M RMB Pre-B jointly led by SDIC Venture & Yuanhe Chenkun; Lenovo Capital, Qingke, Guyu Jiahe, Tonge, CAS Advanced, Shenzhen Angel FoF, iFlytek Ventures, Zhuiyuan follow. Hybrid Vision fusion sensor chips ALPIX (Pilatus 2021 proof; Eiger Jul 2022 for phones/action cams); smartphone, CE, security, auto.

**Bingji Tech (并济科技)** — >RMB 100M strategic from Shanghai Xinhong Intelligent (21 Nov), NVIDIA Elite Partner with >RMB billions in downstream compute contracts. Bingji (since 2020) runs 500+ HPC nodes and China’s largest commercial A100 private-cloud offering (A100/A800/H800).

**Xiaozhi Future (小智未来)** — Entropy Inverse Ventures; founded 2023; paid AI courses (online), offline training, enterprise AI enablement consulting.

**Tupu Intelligent / Wenyin Interconnect (图谱智能 / 文因互联)** — multi-tens-of-millions RMB C1 from Guoke Xinneng. LLM+NLP+prompt+KG knowledge management for finance/regtech — SSE, BSE, CMB, Ping An Bank, Ningbo Bank, Ping An Asset, Taikang Asset, GF Securities, etc.; IPO/NEEQ/bond compliance automation; CSRC first-batch tech-service vendor; IDC/CB Insights/KPMG FinTech 50.

**Waveform Intelligent (波形智能)** — multi-hundred-thousand RMB seed, Oufang Angel sole; Yuanhe Capital long-term exclusive FA. AI-native interactive long-form content generation from proprietary models; entertainment as first real human–AI interactive landing.

**Ruanjiang Turing (软江图灵)** — Protein DB distributed database + AI/data-governance/storage platforms; 3,000+ enterprise customers across 40+ industries (~40% finance); powers smart commerce/industry/life and payment clearing; dual-live cross-DC architectures for banks/clearing houses.

**Changyang Tech (长扬科技)** — strategic round from Fujian Big Data PE, Shandong Airport Capital, Beijing Sijiqing Agribusiness, Longding Investment. Industrial internet security, ICS situation awareness, vision-AI security big data — Jianao industrial vision AI among product lines.

## 03 · Report statement

### 3.1 Team

**Unique Research** is Unique Capital’s center for new-business innovation research — domestic and go-global enterprise-service ecosystems (new marketing, new retail, new experience) plus data/AI/automation applied to consumer retail, local services, healthcare, etc. Analysts come from top research consultancies, PE funds, and tech media.

### 3.2 Data notes

**Liability:** Limited methods and sources; for market reference only; Unique Research assumes no legal liability for data or views.

**Definitions:** Primary-market stats from Xenniu Data. Seed merged with angel where scale/count is small. Lead-investor cumulative size ≈ 50% of round; non-leads ≈ equal share of round. Percentage totals forced to 100% (last item = residual; ~1% rounding tolerance).

**FX:** Pre-2023 amounts at 31 Dec 2022 spot; 2023 monthly amounts at deal-day rates.

_7 CN images (charts/tables); attach on ingest. Full editorial rewrite of ~10,860 CJK monthly — all key facts, tickers, amounts, and named rounds preserved._

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