"Linke Zhihua" completed a 23 million yuan seed round of financing, and it is expected to achieve a revenue of 150 million yuan next year | 36Kr exclusive.

Written by Tian Zhe

Edited by Su Jianxun

36Kr has learned that Linke Zhihua recently announced the completion of a 23 million yuan seed round of financing, with Qianyi Capital as the investor. The funds from this round of financing will be used by Linke Zhihua for team building, technology research and development, and the infrastructure construction of core artificial intelligence technologies.

Linke Zhihua was established in 2024, with the "high-quality data", the most important part of artificial intelligence, as the core, and is committed to providing data intelligence solutions for companies in various industries. It is reported that the core team of Linke Zhihua has more than ten years of experience in artificial intelligence data services, and its CEO, Wang Xuhui, is a core scientist at Scale AI in the United States, a member of the Association for Computing Machinery, and a member of the International Association for Artificial Intelligence.

With the gradual maturity of AI and big data technologies, more and more traditional industries are starting to undergo intelligent transformation. However, in the process of intelligent transformation, enterprises may encounter difficulties such as the difficulty in unifying heterogeneous data, high R & D costs, and high security risks. In addition, in the process of building an intelligent system, a large amount of infrastructure such as computing power, storage, and cloud services is required, which is costly for enterprises. The intelligent process requires professional technical talents, operation and maintenance personnel, and product personnel, which traditional enterprises do not possess.

The solution of Linke Zhihua is precisely to address this pain point. It adopts a combined mode of a data processing engine and a hardware system to provide data intelligence solutions for enterprise customers. This will be a market with great potential. Data company IDC points out that from 2024 to 2028, the total ICT expenditure of Chinese enterprises for the development and operation of digital business-related will reach 2.99 trillion US dollars.

Wang Xuhui, the founder and chairman of Linke Zhihua, told 36Kr that in response to the increasingly huge market demand, Linke Zhihua has launched the training and inference integrated machine "Xihua Zhiqu AW2000", which is equipped with a number of self-developed artificial intelligence large models and vertical field systems, and can be adapted to the customized needs of various industries to quickly meet the needs of various industries.

It is reported that AW2000 adopts a gas-liquid two-phase heat dissipation technology. While ensuring AI computing power, it can reduce the requirements for IDC computer rooms and can be deployed within enterprises to ensure data privacy and security. The self-developed model significantly reduces computing power consumption and improves GPU utilization through intelligent scheduling of computing power.

In addition, the model training architecture of Linke Zhihua supports a multi-modal architecture, uses various training and inference acceleration technologies, and efficiently supports multi-modal needs. And it can be customized according to the business needs of enterprises to meet the intelligent needs in different scenarios.

In terms of the system, Linke has four major platforms: the heterogeneous computing power platform, the large model basic platform, the low-code intelligent Agent platform, and the Linke multi-modal data annotation and processing platform. Linke Zhihua provides a full-link intelligent system solution for the different customer needs of various industries through these four platforms.

Currently, the service customers of Linke Zhihua cover scenarios such as autonomous driving, intelligent customer service, intelligent manufacturing, education, and intelligent medical care.

It is reported that Linke Zhihua is building a thousand-card supercomputing center to meet the large-scale AI computing needs. The supercomputing center will integrate the industry's cutting-edge computing resources and have the ability to handle massive data sets and complex computing tasks to support local scientific research institutions and enterprise users.

Wang Xuhui said that Linke Zhihua plans to expand its market share in the manufacturing, finance, education and other fields within the next two years, further empowering various industries, allowing AI to truly land in various industries and play a greater role. It is expected that Linke Zhihua will achieve a revenue of 150 million yuan next year.