Domestic AI startup silicon-based liquidity completes a new round of financing of hundreds of millions of yuan

IT Home reported on June 9 that SiliconFlow, a domestic AI startup, issued a statement today that it has completed a Series A financing of hundreds of millions of yuan. This round of financing was led by Alibaba Cloud, with over-following investments in institutions such as the old shareholder Innovation Works, and Huaxing Capital serves as the exclusive financial advisor.

Silicon-based flow founder Yuan Jinhui said: "As a deep cultivation of AI As a professional player in the field of infrastructure for many years, silicon-based liquidity has effectively solved many major problems in the development of the domestic AI industry through continuous technological breakthroughs and product innovation. Since the beginning of this year, with the rise of open source models such as Alibaba Tongyi Qianwen and DeepSeek and the surge in demand for AI reasoning computing power, the company's business has ushered in explosive growth. Thanks to the trust and support of multiple investment institutions, with the help of this round of financing, we will continue to increase R&D investment, actively expand domestic and foreign markets, and strive to become the first choice of generative AI development platform for developers as soon as possible. "

According to the official introduction of silicon-based liquidity, it is lowering the threshold for developers to use advanced AI models through product innovation, improving the development efficiency of AI applications, and promoting the prosperity of the AI ​​application ecosystem. Among them:

The big model cloud service platform SiliconCloud (cloud.siliconflow.cn) has launched hundreds of mainstream open source models including Alibaba Tongyi Qianwen3, DeepSeek-R1 & V3, etc., providing one-stop solutions from model fine adjustment, hosting to deployment. In the past year, SiliconCloud has quickly become the fastest growing third-party big-model cloud service platform in China with its outstanding technical strength and product strength: the total number of platform users exceeded 6 million, the number of corporate customers reached thousands, and the average daily token generation volume exceeded 100 billion.

Based on SiliconCloud, one-stop workflow design platform BizyAir (bizyair.cn) has been highly praised by AI designers through seamless collaboration between cloud GPU resources and local ComfyUI. The platform provides a rich out-of-the-box workflow templates, supports users to upload custom models and nodes, giving creators flexibility and freedom in development. Recently, BizyAir has supported Alibaba Tongyi Wanxiang Video Generation Workflow and supports custom LoRA models to further help creators achieve creative implementation efficiently.

At present, Silicon-based Flow has launched a variety of solutions such as API services, exclusive examples, software subscriptions and large-model all-in-one machines. It has implemented applications in cutting-edge fields such as large language models, literary and biographical images, and video generation, successfully serving leading customers in many industries such as the Internet, finance, manufacturing, and entertainment, helping corporate customers to achieve rapid deployment of large models and value conversion.

IT Home learned from the official that silicon-based flow was established in August 2023. It is committed to building the AI ​​infrastructure (AI Infra) platform in the big model era, and through collaborative innovation of algorithms, systems and hardware, it lowers the threshold for the development and use of AI applications across orders of magnitude. The company announced in February this year that it will complete a 100 million yuan Pre-A round of financing by the end of 2024.