Beijing Lanzhou Technology, an artificial intelligence enterprise incubating in innovative workplaces, has recently completed a Pre-A round of financing with nearly 1 million yuan jointly invested by Lenovo Venture Capital and Stormwind Capital, and innovation works. This round of financing is mainly used for the development and prospective research of natural language processing (NLP) core products.
lanzhou technology is a cognitive intelligence company, which provides business insight products based on natural language processing (NLP) for the digital transformation of business scenes. Since its establishment one year ago, Lanzhou Technology has obtained three rounds of financing. Previously, the company completed the seed round and angel round financing led by innovation works Artificial Intelligence Engineering Institute and Frontier Science and Technology Fund respectively.
Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, Chairman and CEO of innovation works, said, "In the past two years, we have conducted worldwide technical research, and we have seen that the new technology of' self-supervised learning' is on the rise. We predict that this technology will take natural language understanding to the next stage and surpass the human level, which is of great significance to me who devoted myself to the field of natural language nearly 4 years ago. Innovation works excavated and assisted Dr. Zhou Ming, a world-class scientist in this field, and hatched Lanzhou Technology from to 1. The company also achieved gratifying results from technological breakthrough to commercial landing within one year of its establishment. We expect Luzhou Technology to become the top company in NLP field in the world step by step. "
Dr. Zhou Ming, founder and CEO of Lanzhou Technology, pointed out, "At present, no matter from the major technological breakthrough of pre-training model or the encouragement policy of national innovation and entrepreneurship, hard-core technology entrepreneurship has shown a vigorous development momentum, which can be described as' hard technology entrepreneurship is just in time'. From perceptual intelligence to cognitive intelligence, there are huge business opportunities here. From scientists to entrepreneurs, I will lead the Luzhou team to build a new generation of cognitive intelligence platform with NLP as the core technology to help employees greatly improve their information acquisition, search, translation, analysis and judgment, business forecasting, report generation and decision-making assistance. "
Ren Bobing, executive director of innovation works and general manager of Frontier Science and Technology Fund, pointed out, "The goal of innovation works Frontier Science and Technology Fund is to become the first-round investor and long-term friend of technology entrepreneurs. Since its establishment, it has completed the layout of several breakthrough technological innovation projects, and will continue to explore the global market of deep technology around AI, life sciences, new energy and other fields in the future. Luzhou Technology is a key company in innovation works's deep incubation. We continue to be optimistic about the industry landing of Dr. Zhou Ming's team in the field of cognitive intelligence. I believe they will shine in 222. "
it is understood that lanzhou technology opened the Mencius lightweight Chinese pre-training model in October last year, and in July last year, the model refreshed the list of CLUE, the authoritative evaluation of Chinese language understanding, which was dominated by the previous 1 billion and 1 billion parameter models. Mencius' new generation cognitive service engine also stood out from 418 projects and 577 entrepreneurial talents in 48 countries and regions in the HICOOL221 Global Entrepreneurship Competition held in Beijing, and won the first prize and the first place in artificial intelligence and financial track. Based on the research route of lightweight and efficient training, Mencius model gives full play to the potential of the model under the existing parameters, which is conducive to landing real business scenarios quickly and at low cost.
Mencius model has been successfully put into practice in many fields, and many industry-leading products have been derived, covering machine translation, text generation, industry search and other fields. At present, Lanzhou Technology has cooperated with Vivid to empower the translation industry and help enterprises improve their international language competitiveness. In cooperation with Rong Hui, a subsidiary of Digital Storytelling, we successfully launched the first cooperative product "contentnote Smart Copywriting" at the end of last year. At the same time, we also signed strategic cooperation agreements with leading enterprises in the industry, such as Huawei Cloud and Straight Flush, to jointly create business value in the era of "Industry +AI".
Dr. Zhou Ming, the founder of Lanzhou Technology, is a world-class AI scientist and a representative figure in the field of natural language processing. He is currently the vice chairman of china computer federation, the executive director of China Chinese Information Society and the chief scientist of innovation works. The core team members graduated from Peking University, Harbin Institute of Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University and other well-known universities, or worked in well-known technology companies such as Microsoft and Alibaba Cloud.
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