SiliconFlow
硅基流动
SiliconFlow (硅基流动) is a Chinese AI infrastructure company founded and led by CEO Yuan Jinhui, positioning itself in the layer between compute providers and large-model companies by packaging those pieces into an integrated offering . Yuan's path there runs through his earlier startup OneFlow — a deep-learning framework backed at angel stage by Unity Ventures (九合), later acquired by Wang Huiwen's 光年之外 — followed by a stint at Meituan, and a brief chapter as one of the two co-founders Wang recruited for his 2023 LLM venture before it abruptly dissolved after Wang fell ill; Yuan then started SiliconFlow .
The company's breakout came with the DeepSeek surge: per a 暗涌Waves exclusive, it was "the first to catch DeepSeek's traffic wave," raising a new round in the hundreds of millions of RMB led by Alibaba — which Yuan described as "a mutual embrace" . A second bet is domestic chips: in early February 2025 it partnered with Huawei Ascend to enable efficient deployment of DeepSeek models on Chinese-made hardware . Earlier backers include China Growth Capital, Meituan, and Sinovation Ventures , and per a 十字路口Crossing piece its angel round already carried a valuation in the hundreds of millions of RMB .
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