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ShengShu Technology

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ShengShu生数科技ShengShu AI

Beijing-based Chinese AI startup (founded March 2023) specializing in multimodal generative models; creator of the Vidu video generation platform.

Founded2023China
HQBeijingChina
01 · About

ShengShu Technology

Founded 2023 · Beijing, China

ShengShu Technology (生数科技) is a Chinese AI startup founded in March 2023 in Beijing, specializing in multimodal generative models that integrate text, image, video, and 3D content. The company develops its own research stack centered on transformer-based diffusion models, with publications including UniDiffuser (ICML 2023), DPM-Solver (NeurIPS 2022), All are Worth Words (CVPR 2023), ProlificDreamer (NeurIPS 2023), and Vidu4D (NeurIPS 2024). Its flagship product is the Vidu video generation platform – supporting text-to-video, image-to-video, and reference-to-video – used in more than 200 countries. The second pillar is Motubrain, a multimodal AI platform for enterprise use cases (animation, interactive entertainment, advertising, film, culture and tourism). Investors include Baidu, Baidu Venture, Ant Group, and Qiming Venture Partners; partners include AWS, AMD, Lenovo, JD.com, Alipay, and 360. ShengShu positions itself as a Chinese leader in generative video AI, branded around the mission "On the Path to AGI".

  • Tang Jiayu (唐家渝)

    Co-founder, CEO

    Chinese AI entrepreneur and Tsinghua University PhD; co-founder of ShengShu Technology, creator of the Vidu video model.

  • Zhu Jun (朱军)

    Co-founder

    Chinese computer scientist and Tsinghua University professor specializing in generative ML; co-founder of ShengShu Technology.

  • Bao Fan

    Co-founder

    Chinese AI researcher, co-author of the U-ViT architecture; co-founder of ShengShu Technology.

02 · What they do

Domain of activity

4 areas · 4 technologies · 4 industries
What they do4Areas
  • Multimodal models
  • Content generation
  • Language models
  • AI platforms
How they do it4Technologies
  • Generative AI
  • Multimodal AI
  • Foundation Models
  • Computer vision
Who for4Industries
  • Media & entertainment
  • Retail
  • Education
  • Research & science
03 · Geography

Global presence

HQ Beijing · 3 regions
ChinaAsiaGlobal
04 · Metrics

Scale & funding

founded 2023
2023founded
growthdevelopment stage
Privatenot listed
activestatus
05 · Portfolio

Products & solutions

1 ai systems
06 · Relations

Organizational relations

7 strategic relations

Strategic relations

7
  • Investor in
    Investor: Baidu (and Baidu Venture).
  • Investor in
    Investor: Ant Group.
  • Investor in
    Investor: Qiming Venture Partners.
  • Cloud provider
    Cloud partner: AWS.
  • Compute partner
    Compute partner: AMD.
  • Partnership
    Technology partner: Lenovo.
  • Partnership
    Business partners include JD.com, Alipay, 360, China Resources Beer, Wondershare.
07 · Classification

Profile & metadata

4 classification · 2 external links

Classification

  • Statusactive
  • Development stagegrowth
  • Listed onNoprivate
  • Organization typeStartup+ AI Lab, + Platform company

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