Xinchen AI

Xinchen AI (西湖心辰) is a Hangzhou-based artificial intelligence company spun out of Westlake University's deep-learning lab in July 2021, founded by Zhenzhong Lan (蓝振忠), a Carnegie Mellon PhD and former Google AI scientist who led development of ALBERT, a lightweight variant of BERT . The company positions itself as a Chinese contender in artificial general intelligence, with BlueRun Ventures leading its angel round and later continuing to back it through multiple rounds ; Baidu Venture led a subsequent Pre-A round, and Talking Tom (Outfit7/Kingnet) has made strategic investments exceeding RMB 100 million, becoming the largest external shareholder after the founding team .

In August 2024, Xinchen AI launched "Xinchen Lingo," which it described as China's first end-to-end voice large model, opening beta registration on August 24 . The company has pursued a multi-modal path combining its general-purpose foundation model with vertical applications and hardware partnerships, notably collaborating with Talking Tom on AGI, domain-specific models, and interactive terminal products leveraging its long-term memory, emotional perception, and proactive chat capabilities .