Yuanli Intelligence Secures $8 Million in Seed Round Funding, Focusing on Business Reinforcement Learning to Build Enterprise-Level Agents

Enterprise intelligent agent company Yoolee AI recently completed an $8 million seed - round financing, led by BlueRun Ventures and followed by Light Source Entrepreneurs Fund. Light Source Capital assisted in the early - stage incubation and served as the exclusive financial advisor.

Yoolee AI was founded by Zhang Fan, the former COO of Zhipu AI. It focuses on establishing reliable self - evolving intelligent agent employees with business reinforcement learning (RL for Business) as the core path. The company hopes to transform the capabilities of foundation models into quantifiable business results through business scenario reinforcement learning and promote the real - world implementation of AI Agents.

Zhang Fan, the founder of Yoolee AI, is a serial entrepreneur in the AI field. He studied artificial intelligence in France in his early years and also conducted machine - translation research at the French National Center for Scientific Research. After returning to China in 2010, he was responsible for the R & D of intelligent voice products (Siri - like products) at Sogou and Tencent. Later, he founded Miaoji Travel and served as the CTO of Cheyipai. In 2022, he founded Yuanyin Intelligence (later acquired by Zhipu AI). He joined Zhipu AI as COO in 2023 and left in June this year to start a new business.

Zhang Fan said that currently, the mainstream Agent - to - B models mostly rely on the fixed workflow of "customization + SFT (Supervised Fine - Tuning)", which has high deployment costs, slow scenario adaptation, and strong coupling with the model. Any model upgrade will bring huge upgrade costs and cannot be scaled. So Yoolee AI believes that the emergence of reinforcement learning brings a new learning paradigm. Business reinforcement learning oriented towards business results is used to build self - evolving productive intelligent agents for enterprises, enabling them to continuously create business value in the real business environment.

Reinforcement learning has made breakthroughs in scenarios with "clear feedback" such as code generation and mathematical reasoning, but it faces a more complex and high - dimensional environment in enterprise business. The core goal of Yoolee AI is to build a real reward function and optimization mechanism by combining business priors and implicit knowledge, allowing AI to continuously evolve in complex business decisions.

There is a trending perception in the industry that AI Agents driven by reinforcement learning are becoming the new direction of the global AI industry. The Thinking Machines Lab founded by Mira Murati, the former CTO of OpenAI, also proposed using reinforcement learning to help enterprises customize AI models based on KPIs such as revenue and profit.

It is reported that Yoolee AI has cooperated with several leading enterprises in the industry to jointly explore the application and implementation of business reinforcement learning in different fields.

Zheng Xuanle, the founder and CEO of Light Source Capital, said: "It has been three years since the release of ChatGPT. The technological focus of generative AI is shifting from pre - training to post - training centered on reinforcement learning, and the application direction is also starting to explore the 'deep waters' of business paradigm reshaping. We believe that the 'enterprise intelligent agent employees' built based on reinforcement learning will bring double - fold changes: First, it will reshape the growth mode of enterprises. The exclusive intelligent agent employees trained by enterprises based on their own data will directly act on the core business links, achieving 'computing power equals performance'. Second, it will revolutionize the delivery mode of enterprise services, driving it to shift from the past 'project - based' mode highly dependent on customization and non - standard delivery to a standardized and replicable service paradigm driven by intelligent agent employees. This is not only an improvement in efficiency but also a paradigm revolution in the entire enterprise service field.

The commercial implementation of large models is difficult but the right thing to do. It not only requires cutting - edge technological innovation but also in - depth industry knowledge and continuous front - line practice. We are long - term optimistic about high - potential teams with a composite background of 'technology + industry'. We are glad to participate in the incubation and help Yoolee AI complete its first - round financing. We are also honored that Mr. Zhang chose to partner with Light Source Capital from the beginning of this entrepreneurial journey. In the future, Light Source Capital will continue to explore the best practices for the commercial implementation of large models with Yoolee AI, build 'enterprise - level self - evolving intelligent agent employees', and lead the next wave of greater value in generative AI!"

Lou Yang, a partner at Light Source Capital, said: "In the new era of GenAI reshaping the industry, Light Source Capital has always closely monitored and supported the new - generation entrepreneurs with both technological innovation capabilities and industry insights. The Yoolee AI team led by Mr. Zhang is one of the very few full - stack entrepreneurial teams in China that not only have solid model - training technology accumulation but also in - depth business understanding of enterprise scenarios. We believe that Yoolee AI, as a representative of the new - generation commercial - grade AI Agents, will define a new service paradigm in the vast blue - ocean market of GenAI - to - B and lead the industry forward. Light Source Capital chose to firmly support Yoolee AI from its establishment and has witnessed the rapid growth of the company's business in the past few months. In the future, we will continue to provide comprehensive service support to Yoolee AI to help the company grow into a leader in the commercial - grade GenAI application track in China and even globally!"