"Zhongdiao Technology" Closes Three Consecutive Rounds Worth Over 100 Million Yuan, Yunqi Capital Sole Investor in A2 Round | Yunqi Capital

Zhongdiao Technology, a company focused on end-to-end digital intelligence solutions for the automotive industry, recently announced a new funding round. Yunqi Capital and Dongfang Datong led the A2 and A3 rounds respectively as sole investors. The company has raised over 100 million RMB across three rounds within six months, evolving from a data intelligence platform to industry-specific large models to further empower smart upgrades across the automotive sector.

Founded in 2015, Zhongdiao Technology has been recognized as a Shanghai High-Tech Enterprise, Shanghai Specialized and Innovative Enterprise, and Shanghai Tech Little Giant. As a pioneer in end-to-end digital intelligence upgrades for China's automotive industry, the company has built a "one brain, two engines" automotive digital intelligence matrix through its core product suite: the data intelligence platform, transaction engine, and direct sales engine. The "one brain" integrates four data platforms and one AI model algorithm platform, ultimately forming a PaaS+MaaS+SaaS product architecture comprising a core data platform layer (Customer Data Platform CDP + Vehicle Data Platform VDP + Network Data Platform NDP + Content Data Platform MDP), AI large models (Zhongdiao Qintian Large Model and AI platform), and application-layer efficiency tools (a series of digital intelligence tools empowering dealerships). This architecture comprehensively empowers marketing, in-vehicle systems, and autonomous driving, enabling data to create value and improve efficiency as it flows securely across industry scenarios.

Yunqi's Perspective

Yunqi Capital has always focused on "technology innovation, industry empowerment," with industrial digitalization as one of its key investment themes. Yunqi made early-stage investments in outstanding companies including Baibu, JD.com Industrial, Dongjing E-Network, Xiaoyang Education, and Pengli Data.

Feng Yao, Managing Director of Yunqi Capital, said: "We have long paid attention to industrial digital intelligence upgrades and technology empowerment in vertical industries. With the widespread application of AI large models, more and more industry scenarios are poised for disruptive opportunities. Zhongdiao Technology's founding team combines rich experience from both academia and industry, and has developed a complete product system spanning from data platforms to online and offline technology empowerment in automotive marketing. The company has established deep partnerships with multiple mainstream OEMs, with solid customer relationships and data moats. We are optimistic about Zhongdiao Technology's ability to seize the trend opportunity of building industry-specific vertical large models, and effectively deploy across automotive, energy, and other industries with the support of the Alibaba Cloud and OEM partnership ecosystem, achieving further breakthroughs in its product matrix and market opportunity."

Zhongdiao Qintian Large Model: Empowering Smart Upgrades Across the Automotive Industry

Drawing on years of accumulated expertise in the automotive sector, the company has explored numerous application scenarios based on large models and launched the "Zhongdiao Qintian Large Model", covering the full lifecycle of automotive R&D, marketing, sales, after-sales service, vehicle connectivity, intelligent driving, and smart cockpits. Particularly in pre-sales and sales, the company has developed deployable large model application solutions spanning over 20 scenarios, including AI role-play training, intelligent Q&A, WeCom AI customer service, brand copywriting and AIGC content generation, and AI-assisted automatic training material generation. These solutions have gained recognition from multiple leading OEMs during POC phases and have begun rolling out as large model application projects to top domestic OEMs.

The Zhongdiao Qintian Large Model demonstrates exceptional capabilities in semantic understanding, dialogue generation, document comprehension, and sentiment analysis, enabling effective application of large models in automotive business scenarios. It not only provides intelligent decision support for enterprises but also drives data-driven innovation for more efficient business operations and management. The Zhongdiao Qintian Large Model pursues a "two-legged" dual-model approach simultaneously: a self-developed model based on open-source large models and a joint model based on Alibaba Cloud's Tongyi large model. By learning from massive domain-specific automotive knowledge, it provides powerful intelligent support across the entire automotive value chain. It can be applied to automotive R&D, manufacturing, supply chain, and sales, as well as provide intelligent solutions for comprehensive enterprise services. Additionally, the model enables intelligent services and superior customer experiences, helping enterprises build brand image and meet diverse customer needs.

During industry customization, the Zhongdiao Qintian Large Model deeply integrates Zhongdiao Technology's rich business knowledge, scenarios, and data assets accumulated through digital transformation in the automotive industry. Leveraging the company's algorithmic and data advantages in the sector, the model generates more accurate semantic information compared to general pre-trained models, better meeting the specific needs of the automotive industry.

Deep Comprehensive Partnership with Alibaba Cloud: AI Algorithms Driving a New Industrial Ecosystem

Since 2020, Zhongdiao Technology and Alibaba Cloud have established a comprehensive and deep industry ecosystem partnership, initially rooted in automotive vertical business and covering essentially all mainstream Chinese OEMs including Geely, Changan, BYD, FAW Audi, BAIC Foton, SAIC-GM, SAIC Audi, and JMC Commercial Vehicles. Meanwhile, leveraging products such as its enterprise open AI platform integrated with Alibaba Cloud's machine learning PAI, Zhongdiao Technology has expanded into power, tobacco, pharmaceutical, and university sectors. In May 2023, Zhongdiao Technology became an Alibaba Cloud "Industry Preferred MSP Partner," obtained integration certification for Alibaba Cloud's product ecosystem, and fully launched deep collaboration in the large model domain.

Dr. Zheng Xin, Chairman of Zhongdiao Technology, said: "Going forward, Zhongdiao Technology will conduct horizontal business expansion based on the Qintian Large Model, providing OEMs with comprehensive support for business upgrades, cost reduction, and brand image enhancement. By empowering R&D, production, supply chain, sales, and service, Zhongdiao Technology will help OEMs achieve business upgrades and optimization, improve efficiency, and reduce costs. This will not only enhance enterprises' brand service image but also elevate overall customer experience, creating greater value and competitive advantage for enterprises."