36氪 was informed that Hangzhou Xinzhi Universe Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Xinzhi Universe”), an AI cutting-edge technology company, announced the completion of an angel round of financing of tens of millions of yuan. This round of financing was led by Sequoia China Seed Fund, Linear Capital and Xianfeng K2VC co-invested and Yuanhe Capital acted as the exclusive financial advisor. It is reported that this round of funds will be mainly used for product research and development, team expansion and market development.
Mindverse starts from the fusion technology of brain science and artificial intelligence, and creatively builds a digital mind with autonomous consciousness and thinking ability, and expands the next-generation artificial intelligence paradigm.
At present, Human-level AI is at the forefront of academics in the world, and the mental framework proposed by Mind Universe combines perception, cognition and other capabilities to improve the overall user experience, especially logical thinking and memory capabilities, not only It can greatly improve the communication and even emotion between users and applications, and it is the technology that is most likely to realize a new interactive experience.
Specifically, unlike the traditional dialogue virtual human relying on the artificial intelligence framework based on large-scale pre-training models, the mental framework will generate an association mechanism when communicating with people. On the one hand, memory information and environmental information can become its dialogue material. , to drive the autonomous thinking planning of the virtual human; on the other hand, the pre-training scheme provides a knowledge base, and the requirements for data and computing can be further reduced relatively.
“We hope to build a brand-new AI industry. The mental framework is a set of fusion frameworks that integrate the macroscopic structure of the brain and the capabilities of microscopic neural networks.” Dr. Tao Fangbo, founder and CEO of Mind Universe, introduced to 36氪: “The mental framework It can do macro thinking like a human, and can also handle various tasks and use a variety of scenarios. Not only can it be used as a chat robot to conduct video chats with people, but also based on environmental information and memorized information, To support richer and more diverse interactive scenarios.”
At present, Mind Universe focuses on Human-level AI virtual humans, which is also a brand new track, in which identity-based virtual humans and service-based virtual humans have clear paths for realization and market potential, and many application scenarios. The biggest driving force of the Internet will always come from the younger generation. The current Internet and mobile networking applications have been unable to carry the strong creativity of the Z and Alpha generations. In the new Internet, the virtual digital human, as the main interactive carrier of the Metaverse, has a clear With huge growth potential, AR, VR, and digital collections have created infinite imagination and extension space for virtual digital people. According to the “Virtual Digital Human Depth Industry Report” of the Toubao Research Institute, it is estimated that by 2030, the overall market size of my country’s virtual human will reach 270 billion yuan.
Mind Universe said that the metaverse is the form of the next generation of the Internet, but the metaverse is not only more immersive, it will produce many new connections between “humans and digital life”, and new business forms will have the opportunity to develop in These connections flow and create new value increments. The vision of the mind universe is to let intelligent virtual people accompany and serve every user in the metaverse. This new interaction will not only redefine services, but also reconstruct some business forms, and allow us to live in a brand new digital space. Achieve a better self and maximize your own value.
At the business level, Mind Universe provides more vital intelligent services for a wide range of virtual and real scenarios by building a business model of “Mind as a Service (MaaS) – Mind as a Service”. Its upcoming MindOS platform can provide enterprises with customized virtual minds, empower virtual humans, and realize the commercial closed-loop of the maximum value of virtual humans and the value-added of the company’s brand; it can maximize the satisfaction of the market through customized solutions in many industries. demand, and then amplify the value of products and virtual human IP, and realize the landing of virtual human in many application scenarios.
Since the angel round of financing, Mind Cosmos has reached cooperation with a number of domestic top virtual human IPs, and at the same time, it has preliminarily determined cooperation intentions with a domestic top virtual human company, a domestic top advertising company and an overseas metaverse project, and has cooperated with a number of leading virtual human companies. Downstream enterprises in the 100 million-level user market have reached cooperation intentions.
Mind Universe was established in January 2022 and was selected as a key project for innovation and entrepreneurship of high-level talents in Yuhang District in 2022. Founder Tao Fangbo has a Ph.D. from Tsinghua University and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois. He is under the tutelage of Jiawei Han, the founder of data mining. He has worked in Microsoft Research, Facebook and Alibaba. Co-founder Lin Songqi has multinational and cross-industry executive experience. He was responsible for global new product development strategy at Facebook and global commercialization strategy at TikTok. The company’s core team comes from prestigious universities such as Tsinghua University, Peking University, Hong Kong University, and the University of Illinois, and has R&D and executive backgrounds from top technology companies and research institutions such as Facebook, Google, Alibaba, ByteDance, and NetEase.
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