According to Seeds, recently, excellent Vision announced the completion of nearly 50 million yuan of Angel and Angel + two consecutive rounds of financing, which were invested by well-known financial and industrial investment institutions such as BAIC, Qiji Chuantan, Huamin Investment, Longding Investment, Qingzhi Capital, PKSHA Algorithm Fund and other well-known financial institutions.
Prior to this, excellent Horizon also completed tens of millions of yuan of seed round financing last year, invested by Chen Tao Capital.
So far, since its establishment in early 2023, excellent Horizon has won three rounds of capital endorsements, fully reflecting the high recognition of the technological innovation capability, industrial landing capability and future development potential of excellent Horizon.
Excellent Horizon was founded by Huang Guan, PhD in artificial Intelligence at Tsinghua University, who has more than 10 years of AI experience and continuous entrepreneurial experience in AI and self-driving, and has worked in Microsoft, Samsung, Horizon and other well-known companies.
In addition, the company’s core team includes Dr.
Sun Shaoyan, former director of Aliyun and former general manager of Horizon data closed-loop product line, Dr.
Zhu Zheng, postdoctoral fellow of Tsinghua University, Mao Jiming, former head of Apollo simulation technology, and Chen Xinze, who has rich experience in large model algorithm and architecture and won several AI world champions.
As a company that began to explore and layout the world model and spatial intelligence direction earlier in China, the excellent Horizon is committed to promoting video generation to the 4D world model, giving the AI large model the ability to understand, generate, common sense and reason about 4D space, realize interaction and action in 4D space, and move towards general spatial intelligence.
The world model can effectively accelerate the realization of “end-to-end” intelligent driving scheme.
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As far as application scenarios are concerned, general spatial intelligence is of great value and role in the content creation of virtual spaces such as film and television games and meta-universe, as well as the data generation and cognitive reasoning capabilities of physical spaces such as autopilot and embodied intelligence.
BAIC investors said that the new quality productivity represented by intelligent driving is the development trend in the future, and the world model is expected to become a new generation of key technology to solve the current problems faced by intelligent driving.
In the direction of intelligent driving, the excellent horizon widely serves intelligent driving, especially the development and closed-loop testing of end-to-end solutions, through data generation and closed-loop simulation schemes, which can greatly reduce the development cost of intelligent driving.
so as to accelerate the research and development process of intelligent driving and even self-driving.
In terms of business progress, in the direction of physical space, excellent Horizon has released the DriveDreamer series, the world’s first physical world-driven autopilot world model, which provides data generation and closed-loop simulation solutions for autopilot and embodied intelligence.
At this stage, the company has signed a fixed-point cooperation with a number of head mainframe factories, serving more than dozens of related customers, hand in hand with the industry to accelerate towards the physical world general intelligence.
Previously, in the field of smart cars, excellent Vision has reached a cooperation with Yijiatong Technology.
The two sides plan to jointly build a scene library integrated with the real road environment and sensor characteristics, through the iterative construction of AGI capabilities, to generate real and rich virtual driving scenes and traffic flows, the resulting space scenes can be used for multi-perspective and multi-vehicle generalization, and for the quantitative generation of special scenes (corner case), combined with the actual measurement of test vehicles, to build an efficient simulation platform.
Accelerate the efficiency of scene simulation, prediction and function development of intelligent driving, and improve the mileage of effective road verification.
In the direction of virtual space, excellent Horizon has released China’s first original 16-second video generation model, “Horizon YiSu”, and has carried out in-depth cooperation with a number of film and television, games, television and other industry customers.
At the same time, it has also reached a strategic cooperation with a number of head AI film and television creation companies to join hands in the new horizon of content creation.
At present, the field of video generation is developing rapidly, but there are still some essential problems to be solved, such as physical uncontrollability and inconsistency of time and space in content creation.
At the same time, the direction of embodied intelligence is faced with serious constraints such as the shortage of training data in the physical world and the lack of general reasoning ability.
According to the excellent horizon, promoting video generation to the 4D world model and realizing universal spatial intelligence is the most effective way to solve the above problems, which plays a decisive role in the content explosion of virtual space and the application explosion of embodied intelligence.
Therefore, after this round of financing, the excellent horizon will continue to accelerate technological research and development and market expansion, and continue to lead the technological development and industrial breakthroughs in the direction of world models and spatial intelligence Excellent Vision hopes to create a new generation of data and content engines through world models and spatial intelligence, and work with creators and developers to unlock new horizons.
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