"Linx Technologies" completes nearly 500 million yuan in Series B financing

36Kr learned that recently, Lieshu, an edge-side AI inference chip enterprise, has completed a Series B financing of nearly 500 million yuan. This round of financing was jointly led by several state-owned platforms in Anhui Province and Hefei as strategic investors, with follow-on investments from Shenbao Yiben, Tianzhi Investment, Kexun Venture Capital, Yingke Investment, Dongrui Investment, Yongxin Ark, etc. Taihe Capital has served as the long-term financial advisor for Lieshu. The funds from this round will be mainly invested in the R&D of a new-generation edge-side large model AI inference chip, to further promote the upgrading of Lieshu's product system from AI inference chips for perceptual models to AI inference chips for cognitive large models.