Meituan Invests in Zhipu AI, Fxiaoke Secures Strategic Funding
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Recently, the Chinese cognitive large model platform Zhipu AI's affiliated company underwent a business registration change, with Meituan's Tianjin Sankuai Technology Co., Ltd. added as a new shareholder. The registered capital increased from approximately 14.8069 million RMB to about 16.5286 million RMB.
Zhipu AI was founded by Professor Tang Jie from the Department of Computer Science at Tsinghua University. The core team members previously participated in the development of the 'Wu Dao' project, a collaboration between Tsinghua University and the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence. In August 2022, the super-large-scale pre-trained language model GLM-130B, jointly developed by Tsinghua University's Knowledge Engineering Laboratory and Zhipu AI, was officially launched. Beijing Zhipu Huazhang Technology Co., Ltd. was established in June 2019, with Liu Debing as its legal representative. Its business scope includes technical services, artificial intelligence basic software development, data processing and storage support services, and technology intermediary services.