Hypersphere Lands RMB Angel Round for 'Infinite Models' AI
TL;DR
- Shenzhen-based Hypersphere Technology closed an angel round of hundreds of millions of RMB, led into by Legend Capital, CAS Star, SenseTime's Guoxiang Capital and WestSummit Capital.
- The company was founded by Chinese University of Hong Kong professor Weiyang Liu and calls its approach 'Infinite Models.'
- Hypersphere plans to build in-house expert models and route tasks across them alongside open and proprietary models, with research spanning pretraining, RL post-training, PEFT and model merging.
Shenzhen-based Hypersphere Technology has closed an angel round of hundreds of millions of RMB, TechNode reported. Backers include Legend Capital, CAS Star, SenseTime's Guoxiang Capital and WestSummit Capital.
The company was founded by Chinese University of Hong Kong professor Weiyang Liu. Its approach, which Hypersphere calls "Infinite Models," plans to develop in-house expert models while "incorporating capabilities from existing open and proprietary models, using routing and aggregation to match different tasks." Research spans pretraining, reinforcement-learning post-training, parameter-efficient fine-tuning and model merging.
The deal joins a steady run of China AI financings our tracker has logged through October.
Originally reported by technode.com
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