秘塔科技完成超1亿元融资，蚂蚁集团领投
据晚点LatePost报道，秘塔科技近期完成了超1亿元人民币的新一轮融资，由蚂蚁集团领投、光速光合跟投。本轮投后估值达1.5亿美元。据了解，百度、腾讯等大型科技公司也曾在这轮融资期间与秘塔接触，最终蚂蚁与秘塔达成交易。
去年以来，蚂蚁集团在AI领域已至少投资6家公司，包括大模型公司智谱AI、月之暗面，视频生成公司爱诗科技、生数科技，AI芯片公司墨芯和最新的秘塔。
秘塔科技创始人闵可锐是一位连续创业者，曾在2012年联合创立了自然语言技术供应商“玻森数据”，任CTO，该公司后被蚂蚁收购。2017年，闵可锐加入猎豹移动任首席科学家。2018年4月，闵可锐创立秘塔科技，此后秘塔陆续推出法律AI翻译产品“秘塔翻译”，纠错校对产品“秘塔写作猫”；又在2022年推出文章生成产品“量子速写”，上线一周内日活过万。
秘塔科技的AI搜索产品“秘塔AI搜索”于今年3月正式上线，当月网站访问量超过700万次，据网站访问数据监测平台Similar Web，秘塔搜索3月的访问量在中国一批AI产品中排名第三，增速达到550%。
闵可锐表示，秘塔科技使用自研模型，但参数没有那么大，旨在降低成本，提高应用效率。
市场看好AI搜索的逻辑是：随着大模型技术基础的稳定，AI应用产品将迎来爆发，而搜索是互联网最重要的刚需场景，市场空间巨大，值得用AI重做一次。
英语如下：
News Title: “Ant Group Leads Investment in Miaoda Technology: Billion-Yuan Financing for AI Search Startup”
Keywords: Miaoda, Ant Group, AI Search
News Content: Miaoda Technology has completed over 100 million yuan in new financing, with Ant Group leading the investment and Sequoia Capital China participating. Post-investment valuation stands at 150 million US dollars. It is understood that companies like Baidu and Tencent also reached out to Miaoda during the funding round, but it was Ant Group that eventually sealed the deal.
Since last year, Ant Group has invested in at least six companies in the AI sector, including big model company Zhipu AI, video generation company Aishu Science & Technology, AI chip company Meixi, and the latest, Miaoda Technology.
Miaoda’s founder, Min Ke’e, is a serial entrepreneur who co-founded the natural language technology supplier “Boson Data” in 2012, serving as the CTO, which was later acquired by Ant Group. In 2017, Min Ke’e joined QiXia Mobile as the Chief Scientist. In April 2018, Min Ke’e established Miaoda Technology, which has since launched legal AI translation products “Miaoda Translation” and proofreading products “Miaoda Writing Cat.” In 2022, it introduced an article generation product “Qubit Draft,” which achieved over 10,000 daily active users within a week of its launch.
Miaoda Technology’s AI search product, “Miaoda AI Search,” was officially launched in March this year, with website traffic exceeding 7 million visits in the month, according to website traffic monitoring platform SimilarWeb. Miaoda Search ranked third among AI products in China in March, with a growth rate of 550%.
Min Ke’e stated that Miaoda Technology uses its own research models, with fewer parameters aimed at reducing costs and improving application efficiency.
The market’s optimism for AI search stems from the premise that as the foundation technology of large models stabilizes, AI application products will see a surge, and search is the most critical need scenario on the internet, with a vast market space that is worth reimagining with AI.
【来源】https://www.latepost.com/news/dj_detail?id=2426
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