Xiaobing

Xiaobing (小冰) is an AI Being infrastructure company spun out from Microsoft's Xiaoice team in July 2020, led by CEO Li Di . Its core product is the Xiaobing Framework, which the company describes as the most widely deployed and complete AI Being infrastructure globally, covering 660 million online users, 1 billion third-party smart devices, and 900 million content viewers across China, Japan, and Indonesia as of late 2022 .

The company has raised at least two major rounds: a Series A in July 2021 led by Hillhouse with 5Y Capital, Neumann, IDG, GGV, Northern Light, and NetEase following on, at a valuation exceeding $1 billion ; and a subsequent RMB 1 billion round in November 2022 for accelerating AI Being framework R&D and digital employee adoption . 5Y Capital, which co-led the earlier round, has cited Xiaobing as a portfolio company it "deeply respects" for its long-term work on natural language interaction .

Xiaobing's commercial focus centers on AI digital employees, with claimed penetration above 60% in smart vehicle systems and applications in finance, culture, textiles, and tourism . Notable deployments include "Guan Jun," a Winter Olympics digital coach, and "Zhao Xiaoying" for China Merchants Group . The company has also pursued partnerships with DingTalk for digital human video production , NetEase Cloud Music for voice synthesis software , BlueFocus , and CITIC Press for a Kevin Kelly digital human .

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