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[NetEase smart news January 18 news] domestic AI maker Rokid announced today has completed a new round of financing, the current round of financing led by Temasek, Credit Suisse, CDIB, IDG and other agencies follow the vote, sources said that the financing amount of nearly 100 million USD.
It is understood that the lead investor Temasek was established in 1974 and is a holding company that is regulated by the Ministry of Finance of Singapore and registered in private. Temasek operates shares of 36 National Development Banks such as the Singapore Development Bank (a total of S$345 million, approximately RMB 1.6 billion, or more than $70 million).
In addition, except that IDG is an old shareholder, the other three are new investors, and Credit Suisse and CDIB are the first to appear in the financing transactions in the domestic AI field.
According to the data, Rokid was founded in 2014 and was founded by the former Ali M studio head, Misa, who positioned the intelligent hardware company around AI's human-machine interaction, except for Alien and the smart speaker Pebble (Yueshi). They also released AR glasses equipped with speech recognition and Face ID just in the 2018CES exhibition. (Dingxi)
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The smart speaker market is changing. Faced with the chasing of competitors, Misa said that they have a spirit of speculation: “If others can’t do it, we can’t be discouraged and try hard to do it; if others do, we can’t do more. Well; if others do more than just, and better, then we can do something different."
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