Frontis
衔远科技
Frontis (衔远科技) is a Chinese generative-AI startup founded in 2021 by Zhou Bowen, previously head of AI at JD.com, with a team drawn from SenseTime, CAS, and Uber . The company took a vertically integrated route, building its own foundation model and application layer around a multi-turn conversational product called ProductGPT, positioned for sectors such as 3C, consumer goods, and cosmetics . Qiming Venture Partners, one of the most active domestic investors in large-model startups, lists Frontis among its AGI portfolio . As of early 2023 it was grouped with the wave of "internet entrepreneur" spinouts alongside Wang Huiwen's Lightyear AI and Wang Xiaochuan's Wuji Zhinen .
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