On July 16th, Hangzhou Yiwise Ai Technology Co., Ltd. announced the completion of the A round of financing, with a financing amount of 70 million yuan. This round of financing was led by Qifu Capital,  and other Capitals including Jinshajiang United Capital.  The funds are mainly used to further strengthen the artificial intelligence NLP talent introduction and core technology research investment, also launch an intelligent outbound robot based on NLP technology.

The financing was reinvested after the investment of 20 million yuan by Jinshajiang Angel in September 2017. The company has invested nearly 100 million yuan and has become one of the most successful start-up companies in the domestic NLP field in the past two years.

The company's core founding team ome from top universities such as Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, Tsinghua University, Carnegie Mellon University, Nanyang Technological University, and Chinese Academy of Sciences. They have published dozens of papers in international top conferences and journals such as AAAI, IJCAI, TKDE, ACL, KDD, etc., spanning machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, semantic recognition, knowledge mapping, semantic error correction, and speech synthesis.  

The team won the second place in the 2017 world's top machine reading comprehension contest SQuAD. SQuAD is known as ImageNet in the machine reading comprehension. The challenge inot only includes Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Tencent, Alibaba, IBM, and Keda Xunfei, but also Stanford, Harvard, Carnegie Mellon, Singapore. National, Tsinghua University, Peking University, Harbin Institute of Technology and other well-known universities and research institutes at home and abroad are involved.