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36kr has learned exclusively that recently, china's large-scale model unicorn zhipu has completed a new round of financing with a pre-investment valuation of 20 billion yuan, with the amount reaching tens of billions of yuan. the lead investor in this round is zhongguancun science park company, which is a market-oriented investment platform established by the haidian district government.

36kr declined to comment on the above news.

according to public information, the new round of financing is the third completed by zhipu since 2024. at present, zhipu's shareholder lineup includes well-known investment institutions such as hillhouse capital, qiming venture partners, legend capital, and internet giants including meituan, alibaba, tencent, and xiaomi.

as the valuation threshold approaches 20 billion yuan, if the ai ​​model layer wants to continue to obtain funding, it must either have its own self-generating capabilities or establish unique business barriers in the track that can attract capital.

commercialization and rapid iteration in multimodality are the themes of zhipu in 2024.

at present, zhipu's commercialization has several main modes on the b-side: api, cloud privatization, and local privatization. according to the information disclosed by zhipu at the open day in june, its big model open platform bigmodel.cn for developers and corporate customers has more than 500,000 customers.