01.AI
零一万物
01.AI (零一万物), founded in 2023 in Beijing, China, is an AI large language model and AIGC service provider founded by Kai-Fu Lee.
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Snapshot 2026-11-05- Startup SignalsTop 50%↓36
- Foundation ModelsRankedof 39–
- AgentsTop 25%↓3
About
01.AI (零一万物), founded in 2023 in Beijing, China, is an AI large language model and AIGC service provider founded by Kai-Fu Lee. The company released its first open-source large model 'Yi', with Yi-34B ranking first on the English pre-trained open-source model leaderboard and first among publicly available large models on the third-party C-Eval leaderboard in Chinese capability.
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Company· 3
Investor· 1
Founders / team· 3
Funding history
- 2026-10-30Strategic数亿元人民币
- 2024-08Series A$69M
- 2023-11New funding round
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This company
BusinessLatest roundTotal raisedDate- 01.AI
AIGC large-model services
Strategic · $69M · 2026-10
$69M
United States
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Undisclosed · $33M · 2024-04
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Series A · $100M · 2026-06 · Valuation $750M
$100MValuation $750M - Elemental Cognition
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Undisclosed · $60M · 2023-08
$60M
China
BusinessLatest roundTotal raisedDate- Mindverse
Post-training and continual learning for agent models…
Series A · $50M · 2026-06
$50M - 考拉悠然
World model and multimodal large model R&D, the Geek Mind embodied agent, and industry inspection and AI security solutions
Series B · $47M · 2026-10
$47M - nyonic
Builds industry-specific professional large models
Undisclosed · $30M · 2023-07
$30M
Europe
BusinessLatest roundTotal raisedDate- Aleph Alpha
Develops AI large language models based on European data
Undisclosed · $500M · 2024-09
$500M - H
Computer-use AI agent platform for large European enterprises.
Seed · $220M · 2024-05
$220M - Mistral AI
Develops open-weight large language models and provides supporting compute infrastructure…
Series D+ · 2026-09 · Valuation $24B
—Valuation $24B
Other / unspecified
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