{"id":2123,"date":"2026-04-10T01:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T01:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/2123\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T01:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T01:54:11","slug":"chinese-startup-shengshu-raises-293-million-to-advance-artificial-general-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/2123\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese startup ShengShu raises $293 million to advance artificial general intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

BEIJING\/SINGAPORE, April 10 (Reuters) – Chinese artificial intelligence<\/a> startup ShengShu Technology has raised 2 billion yuan ($292.59 million) in a funding round \u200cled by Alibaba Cloud, the company said on Friday, as \u200ccompetition intensifies in China’s AI sector.<\/p>\n

ShengShu said the funding would support development of a “general world \u200bmodel” that processes sensory information to simulate human perception and interaction, which the company describes as a step toward artificial general intelligence in physical environments.<\/p>\n

The company did not provide a timeline for when such a system \u200cwould be commercially available.<\/p>\n

Chinese companies \u2060ranging from industry giants like ByteDance to startups such as humanoid robot specialist Unitree have begun exploring similar “world \u2060model” technologies.<\/p>\n

ShengShu said the funding round included investments from Andon Haitang, China Internet Investment Fund, TAL Education Group, and Luminous Ventures. Existing investors LINK-X CAPITAL, \u200bDelta \u200bCapital, and Baidu Ventures also increased \u200btheir stakes.<\/p>\n

Founded in early 2023 \u200cby Tsinghua University alum Zhu Jun, ShengShu became the first Chinese company to release a video generation model when it launched Vidu in April 2024.<\/p>\n

The model was positioned as a competitor to OpenAI<\/a>‘s Sora, which the U.S. company later discontinued.<\/p>\n

ShengShu has since released several updated versions of \u200cVidu, including the Vidu Q3 model announced \u200bearlier this year.<\/p>\n

The company has also recently \u200bexpanded into robotics applications. In \u200bDecember 2025, it open-sourced Motus, a model designed to \u200ccontrol robots by processing multimodal \u200bdata including video and \u200baudio.<\/p>\n

The startup faces competition from Chinese technology giants including ByteDance, Alibaba and Kuaishou, which have all launched video generation models.<\/p>\n

Internationally, companies \u200bsuch as Google and \u200cstartups including Runway are also developing similar technologies.<\/p>\n

($1 = 6.8355 Chinese \u200byuan renminbi)<\/p>\n

(Reporting by Liam Mo in Beijing and Miyoung Kim \u200bin Singapore; Editing by Jamie Freed)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEIJING\/SINGAPORE, April 10 (Reuters) – Chinese artificial intelligence startup ShengShu Technology has raised 2 billion yuan ($292.59 million)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,2310,25,2313,2311,2314,2316,2312,2315],"class_list":{"0":"post-2123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ai","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-alibaba-cloud","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-china-internet-investment-fund","12":"tag-chinese-companies","13":"tag-funding-round","14":"tag-luminous-ventures","15":"tag-shengshu-technology","16":"tag-startup"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}