Group 1 - The company Sunrise has completed nearly 3 billion yuan in financing within a year, with investors including SANY Group's Huaxu Fund, Paradigm Intelligence, and IDG Capital [1] - The funds raised will be used for the development of the next generation of inference GPUs, large-scale production, and ecosystem building [1] - Sunrise was established in 2020 as a spin-off from SenseTime's chip division, focusing on high-performance GPUs and multimodal scene inference chips [1] Group 2 - The core team consists of over 200 employees, with more than 80% being technical and R&D personnel, many of whom come from leading companies like AMD and Huawei [1] - Co-CEO Wang Yong has over 20 years of experience in the chip industry, having previously worked at AMD and Baidu [2] - Co-CEO Wang Zhan, a founding member of Baidu, has significant experience in the field [2] Group 3 - Unlike traditional GPU manufacturers like NVIDIA that pursue "training and inference integration," Sunrise focuses solely on "pure inference" [4] - The company aims to reduce inference costs by 90% and provide stable services, positioning itself as a transformative player in the AI industry [4] - Sunrise has invested a total of 2 billion yuan in R&D over the past few years, developing a product matrix of three generations of chips [4] Group 4 - The S1 chip, launched in 2020, is China's first visual inference chip and has been licensed to major clients like Sony and Xiaomi [4] - The upcoming S2 chip, set for mass production in 2024, will compete with mainstream A/H series GPUs and be compatible with the CUDA ecosystem [4] - The S3 chip, expected in 2026, aims to achieve significant reductions in cost and energy consumption, targeting a new industry benchmark of "one cent per million tokens" [5]
GPU创企曦望一年融资30亿：出身商汤，押注推理