Three billion dollars! Horizon becomes the world's highest valued AI chip Unicorn

2019 year 2 month 27 Japan , Horizon (Horizon Robotics) Announced a complete 6 About $100 million B Round of funding , Valuation has reached 30 Billion dollars , Become worthy of AI The chip unicorn . Ability to finance by SK China 、SK Hynix As well as a number of China's first tier auto groups （ With its funds ） Joint leading investment , Other participating institutions and strategic partners also include ： Oceanwide investment under China oceanwide Holdings Group 、 Minyin capital 、 CITIC Lyon CSOBOR Fund and Haisong capital .

meanwhile , This round of financing has also obtained, including Chenxing capital 、 High allocations capital 、 Follow up investment of existing shareholders such as Yunhui capital and linear capital .

This is also the next step 2017 Obtained by Intel More than 1 Million dollars A+ After round financing , Horizon, which has only been established for more than three years, has received heavy investment again .

The horizon was founded on 2015 year , The founder is Yu Kai, former president of Baidu Deep Learning Institute .2017 year , Horizon received more than... Investment from Intel and others 1 Million dollars A+ Round of funding , Finish it today B After round financing , This start-up company, which has only been established for three years, officially announced that it had won two of the world's three largest semiconductor enterprises （ Intel and Hynix ）, This is in AI Chip enterprises are also unique .

After this round of financing , The horizon indicates , The future will continue to move towards “ Become a global leader in edge AI chips and computing platforms ” This vision is moving forward , Let intelligent driving car 、 Various intelligent terminals such as intelligent cameras and intelligent robots “On the Horizon”, All things are endowed with artificial intelligence , Make everyone's life safer , Better ！

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