Hidream.ai

Hidream.ai (智象未来) is a Chinese AI content-generation company founded by Mei Tao, who frames the founder's job in interviews as understanding that "model capability itself does not automatically become a moat" — as AI闹 put it in a mid-2026 conversation, big tech is a machine gun and startups only have one magazine . Its current center of gravity is vivago R1, a multimodal content-creation agent launched at the 2026 WAIC and rolled out globally shortly after, with the domestic version branded "够搭" — its core pitch is stable generation of complete 3-to-5-minute videos from a few photos and a short text prompt, positioning the company as moving AI from "generating content" to "generating worlds" . On funding, Crossing reports it took a Series A in 2024 led by Hefei Industry Investment and Anhui's AI mother fund, raised over 500 million RMB in April 2026 with Oriental Fortune Capital among the new backers, and then closed a 1.5 billion RMB Series C days after the vivago R1 launch — roughly 2.1 billion RMB across three months — with BOCOM Capital, 华策影视 and others participating . It has also signed a strategic partnership with Qiming portfolio company Noitom Robotics .