HPC-AI Tech builds AI software infrastructure and video-generation tools, including the open-source projects Colossal-AI and Open-Sora. Colossal-AI enables enterprises to scale large AI workloads like GPT and LLaMA, while Open-Sora focuses on efficient, accessible video generation. The company operates two commercial platforms: hpc-ai.com for model training, fine-tuning, and deployment, and video-ocean.com for producing short-form to full-length videos. Founded by Yang You, a Presidential Young Professor at the National University of Singapore, HPC-AI Tech serves a roster of 50 key clients including four Fortune 500 companies and firms such as AWS, Alibaba, IBM, Intel, and Oracle. The company recently raised $50M in a Series A and intends to use the proceeds to accelerate platform development and grow its client base to 300 within three years. HPC-AI Tech develops Colossal-AI, an integrated large-scale model training system that applies efficient parallelization techniques to accelerate distributed multi-GPU model training. The system is designed to promote deployment of large AI models and deliver lower-cost AI solutions for enterprises. Colossal-AI has established cooperation with manufacturers and open-source communities across autonomous driving, cloud computing, biotech, chip design, and smart retail. The company plans to use the financing to recruit talent and expand its business reach. HPC-AI Tech was founded in Beijing in 2021 and has established an overseas R&D center in Singapore. The firm is focused on serving the enterprise AI market.

Total raised

$56M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Sep 2024