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5.8亿元!95后高颜值“天才少女”再获融资,曾被评“近乎完美”
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曾经轰动A股的Pika,沉寂了半年后,又有新消息。

最近,由95后“天才少女”郭文景创办的AI视频生成创业公司Pika Labs在其官网宣布,公司日前已经完成8000万美元(约合人民币5.8亿元)的B轮融资。本轮融资由Spark Capital领投,Greycroft、Lightspeed Venture Partners以及Jared Leto参投。

此轮融资后,Pika总融资额已达1.35亿美元,估值将超过4.7亿美元(约合人民币34亿元)。

 

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曾受到大半个硅谷追捧

创立半年就融资4亿元

去年11月29日,Pika当时在官网宣称,很高兴推出Pika 1.0,这是一项重大的产品升级,包括一个新的AI模型,能够生成和编辑3D动画、动漫、卡通和电影等不同风格的视频,以及使其更易于使用的全新网络体验。被外界称为一款零门槛的“视频生成神器”。

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5.8亿元!95后高颜值“天才少女”再获融资,曾被评“近乎完美”© 由 北青网 提供

彼时,为这家公司“代言”的是特斯拉与SpaceX的创始人埃隆·马斯克。在Pika的官方宣传视频上,只需要输入“马斯克穿着太空服,3D动画”,一个动画版本、穿着太空服准备乘坐火箭上太空的马斯克即可生成,外形、动作、背景等元素均十分逼真,可以媲美花大成本制作的3D动画影像。 

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“这标志着人工智能驱动的视频生成领域又有了最新的进展,并使Pika能够直接与Runway和Stability AI等第一梯队的对手开展竞争。”在Pika 1.0发布后,曾有兴奋的业内人士如此评价。

这个由斯坦福“天才美少女”创建,成立仅仅6个月,创始团队成员仅有4人的初创公司迅速吸引了大半个硅谷的追捧,融资5500万美元(约合人民币4亿元),估值达到了2亿美元。由Nat Friedman和Daniel Gross领投的种子前轮和种子轮,以及由Lightspeed Venture Partners领投的A轮融资。

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创始人郭文景(左)和联合创始人兼CTO Chenlin Meng。图片来源:X平台

Pika还表示,公司的投资者还包括Elad Gil、Adam D'Angelo(Quora 创始人兼首席执行官)、Zach(Ramp联合创始人)、Andrej Karpathy、Clem Delange(Hugging Face联合创始人兼首席执行官兼Factorial Capital合伙人)等,以及Homebrew、Conviction Partners、SV Angel和Ben's Bites等风险投资公司,以及许多其他受人尊敬的行业领导者和AI专家。

Pika认为,视频是娱乐的核心,但制作高质量视频的过程仍然复杂且资源密集。创办Pika时,公司希望突破技术的界限,设计一个未来的视频制作界面,让每个人都能轻松访问。从那时起,公司很自豪地将Pika社区发展到五十万用户,他们每周生成数百万个视频。

遭遇Sora冲击后沉寂半年

自称可低成本训练视频模型

然而世事无常,在Pika蹿红仅仅两个月以后,OpenAI发布了文生视频模型Sora,用户可以通过使用自然语言提示词用Sora生成长达1分钟高清、连贯、一致性很强的视频,而Pika当时仅能做到几秒左右的视频连贯性。

Sora发布之后,很多人认为,OpenAI轻松“吊打”了Runway、Pika等AI视频创业公司,并对创业者的命运表达了担忧。郭文景在回应媒体担忧时则表示,“我们觉得这是一个很振奋人心的消息,我们已经在筹备直接冲,将直接对标Sora。”

不可否认的是,Sora的出现让Pika的处境显得有些“尴尬”。过去半年,业界以及媒体对于Pika的关注与讨论已经有些“偃旗息鼓”,显得相当沉寂。

过去半年,Pika在技术层面努力做了不少尝试,上线了一系列新功能。例如,添加了风格选项,为用户提供动漫、阴郁、3D、水彩、自然、粘土动画、黑白等7种不同的视频风格选择;增添视频生成音效功能,可为生成的视频无缝添加音效;与ElevenLabs合作推出Lip

sync功能,实现“音频生成+视频对口型”等等。然而,Pika目前仍然只能生成4秒高清连贯视频,与其他的竞品相比也没有明显的领先和优势。

与此同时,Similarweb数据显示,Pika 4月的网站访问量为200万,仅比去年11月刚上线时增长40万,较其最高点则下降了64%。在技术提升、用户增长等方面表现平平的Pika依然能够获得资本的垂青,这令不少人感到有些意外。

去年年底,郭文景在接受媒体采访时表示,随着用户的增加,团队有可能在2024年扩展至20人。随着新一轮融资的完成,人们发现Pika团队目前已有13人,工程人员及科研人员的履历都十分亮眼,而背后的顾问团阵容也十分豪华。

此轮融资后,Pika宣布已经构建起了自己的AI视频生成基础模型,不会依赖其他公司的技术。外界普遍担忧训练视频模型将需要巨额算力与资金,但郭文景也回应称,Pika不需要消耗大量的资金,可以用较低的成本进行训练。她表示,Pika类似于法国的AI大模型Mistral AI,能够在较少资金的情况下也训练出比较好的模型。

尽管本轮融资有些“意料之外”,但随着新一轮资金弹药补充到位、科研与工程团队的扩容,Pika未来能否在AI视频技术与商业应用上带来“意料之外”的惊喜,决定着它能否持续获得资本的青睐。

哈佛面试官称她“近乎完美”

曾引发A股轰动

据悉,郭文景为Pika联合创始人兼首席执行官。在创办Pika前,郭文景为斯坦福大学AI博士。值得注意的是,她还是上市公司信雅达(600571.SH)实控人郭华强之女,目前已是美国籍。

根据公开资料,郭文景在哈佛大学获得数学学士学位,同时攻读了计算机科学硕士学位,并转至斯坦福大学攻读博士学位,进行图形学和神经语言程序学交叉领域的研究,曾在微软、谷歌等公司实习,拥有很强的工程和科研能力。

而早在八年多以前,郭文景就曾因“高颜值学霸”走红。八年前,杭州二中2016届毕业生郭文景拿到了哈佛大学的录取通知,她也是杭州第二中学第一个在本科阶段被哈佛大学录取的学生。

据《钱江晚报》报道,郭文景曾就读于杭二中(即杭州二中)。高一时就获得了全国青少年信息学奥林匹克联赛(浙江省赛区)一等奖,曾受麻省理工邀请参加比赛,获得北美编程邀请赛第二名,超过了绝大多数来自哈佛、斯坦福、卡内基梅隆的大学代表队。2014年、2015年连续两年参加美国国家信息学奥林匹克竞赛,都夺得冠军。

曾经轰动A股的Pika,沉寂了半年后,又有新消息。 最近,由95后“天才少女”郭文景创办的AI视频生成创业公司Pika Labs在其官网宣布,公司日前已经完成8000万美元(约合人民币5.8亿元)的B轮融资。本轮融资由Spark Capi© 由 北青网 提供

在同学眼里,郭文景比别的女生要“浪”,经常在外忙于辩论社的活动。“她每天都会有很多事情,不像别的女生,休息时在阅览室刷题。”

在时任杭二中校长的叶翠微看来,郭文景知道自己要什么,也知道自己要面对什么。特别是她特立独行的个性。“15岁那年能只身飞往美国,教美国孩子奥赛课,拿到了2000美元酬劳。”

在哈佛本科校友面试官看来:“我在中国区面试6年,她是最优秀的学生之一。她的计算机水平,放在美国同龄的女程序员中也是最顶尖的。她在美国大学预科考试中5门满分,英语非常流利,颜值还高,简直是近乎完美。”

而在A股上市的信雅达也因“女儿概念股”受到关注,引发轰动。

去年11月末,信雅达连续涨停,股价一度翻倍。在相关股票论坛,有投资者对信雅达的上涨感到疑惑,另一位投资者简洁地回复“女儿厉害”。

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资料显示,郭华强1956年出生,1986年毕业于中央广播电视大学金融专业,浙江大学MBA。郭华强曾任浙江省工商银行科技处软件科长,杭州新利电子有限公司副董事长、总裁。1996年创办信雅达,历任执行董事、董事长。如今他已卸任董事长职务,但仍是公司实控人。

据悉,信雅达主要业务是以银行业为主的金融机构,提供基于端到端的专业解决方案和产品的业务,主要产品是软件产品、硬件销售、环保产品。

根据信雅达2022年年报,公司正致力于打造AI底座。年报显示,通过聚焦新技术和金融业务的深度融合,公司以“数字底座+技术底座+AI底座+应用平台+共创开发+订阅服务+联合运营”的多层次全栈产品和服务能力,助力银行等金融客户加速实现数字化转型,助力中国金融行业快速实现数字智能化。

其中,AI底座由能力输出和能力构建两大模块构成,围绕公司主要产品线在OCR(光学字符识别)、NPL、数据建模和知识图谱四方面实现了研发突破。



译文:

Pika, which once caused a sensation in A-shares, has been silent for six months before receiving new news.

Recently, Pika Labs, an AI video generation startup founded by Guo Wenjing, a "genius girl" born in 1995, announced on its official website that the company has recently completed a series B financing of $80 million (approximately RMB 580 million). This round of financing is led by Spark Capital, with Greycroft, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Jared Leto participating.

After this round of financing, Pika's total financing amount has reached 135 million US dollars, and its valuation will exceed 470 million US dollars (approximately 3.4 billion yuan).

 

580 million yuan! The highly attractive "genius girl" born in 1995 received financing again and was once rated as "almost perfect"

580 million yuan! The highly attractive "genius girl" born in 1995 received financing again and was once rated as "almost perfect"

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Once sought after by more than half of Silicon Valley

Financing of 400 million yuan within six months of establishment

On November 29th last year, Pika announced on its official website that it was pleased to launch Pika 1.0, a major product upgrade that included a new AI model that could generate and edit videos of different styles such as 3D animation, anime, cartoons, and movies, as well as a completely new online experience that made it easier to use. Known by the outside world as a zero threshold "video generation artifact".

580 million yuan! The highly attractive "genius girl" born in 1995 received financing again and was once rated as "almost perfect"

580 million yuan! The highly attractive "genius girl" born in 1995 received financing again and was once rated as "almost perfect"

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580 million yuan! The highly attractive "genius girl" born in 1995 received financing again and was once rated as "almost perfect"

580 million yuan! The highly attractive "genius girl" born in 1995 received financing again and was once rated as "almost perfect"

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At that time, Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla and SpaceX, endorsed the company. On Pika's official promotional video, simply input "Musk in spacesuit, 3D animation" to generate an animated version of Musk, dressed in spacesuit and ready to take a rocket into space. The appearance, actions, background and other elements are very realistic, comparable to the 3D animation images produced at a large cost.

580 million yuan! The highly attractive "genius girl" born in 1995 received financing again and was once rated as "almost perfect"

580 million yuan! The highly attractive "genius girl" born in 1995 received financing again and was once rated as "almost perfect"

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"This marks the latest progress in the field of artificial intelligence driven video generation, and enables Pika to directly compete with first tier competitors such as Runway and Stability AI." After the release of Pika 1.0, excited industry insiders commented.

This startup, founded by Stanford's "Genius Beauty Girl" and with only four founding team members, quickly attracted the attention of most Silicon Valley. It raised $55 million (approximately RMB 400 million) and was valued at $200 million. Seed front wheel and seed wheel led by Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross, as well as Series A financing led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.

580 million yuan! The highly attractive "genius girl" born in 1995 received financing again and was once rated as "almost perfect"

580 million yuan! The highly attractive "genius girl" born in 1995 received financing again and was once rated as "almost perfect"

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Founder Guo Wenjing (left) and co-founder and CTO Chenlin Meng. image source: X platform

Pika also stated that the company's investors include Elad Gil, Adam D'Angelo (Founder and CEO of Quora), Zach (Co Founder of Ramp), Andrej Karpathy, Clem Delange (Co Founder and CEO of Hugging Face and Partner of Factory Capital), as well as venture capital firms such as Homebrew, Conference Partners, SV Angel, and Ben's Bites, as well as many other respected industry leaders and AI experts.

Pika believes that video is the core of entertainment, but the process of producing high-quality videos is still complex and resource intensive. When founding Pika, the company hoped to break through technological boundaries and design a future video production interface that everyone could easily access. Since then, the company has proudly expanded the Pika community to 500000 users, generating millions of videos per week.

Silent for six months after encountering Sora's impact

Self proclaimed ability to train video models at low cost

However, things are unpredictable. Just two months after Pika's rise to fame, OpenAI released the Sora video model, which allows users to generate high-definition, coherent, and highly consistent videos for up to one minute using natural language prompts. At that time, Pika was only able to achieve video coherence for a few seconds.

After the release of Sora, many people believed that OpenAI had easily "beaten" AI video startups such as Runway and Pika, and expressed concerns about the fate of entrepreneurs. Guo Wenjing responded to media concerns by saying, "We think this is very exciting news, and we are already preparing to directly compete with Sora."

It is undeniable that Sora's appearance has made Pika's situation somewhat awkward. In the past six months, the industry and media's attention and discussion on Pika have been somewhat subdued, appearing quite quiet.

In the past six months, Pika has made many attempts at the technical level and launched a series of new features. For example, a style option has been added to provide users with 7 different video style options, including anime, gloomy, 3D, watercolor, nature, clay animation, black and white, etc; add video generation sound effects function, which can seamlessly add sound effects to the generated videos; Collaborating with ElevenLabs to launch Lip

Sync function, achieving "audio generation+video alignment" and so on. However, currently Pika can only generate 4-second high-definition coherent videos and does not have a significant lead or advantage compared to other competitors.

Meanwhile, Similarweb data shows that Pika's website traffic in April was 2 million, only an increase of 400000 compared to when it first went online in November last year, and a decrease of 64% from its peak. Pika, which has shown mediocre performance in terms of technological advancement and user growth, is still able to gain the favor of capital, which has surprised many people.

At the end of last year, Guo Wenjing stated in a media interview that with the increase of users, the team may expand to 20 people by 2024. With the completion of a new round of financing, it has been discovered that the Pika team currently has 13 members, with impressive resumes of engineering and research personnel, and a luxurious advisory team behind them.

After this round of financing, Pika announced that it has built its own AI video generation foundation model and will not rely on the technology of other companies. There are widespread concerns from the outside world that training video models will require huge computing power and funding, but Guo Wenjing also responded that Pika does not require a large amount of funding and can be trained at a lower cost. She said that Pika is similar to the French AI model Mistral AI, which can train better models with less funding.

Although this round of financing was somewhat unexpected, with the new round of funding and expansion of research and engineering teams, whether Pika can bring unexpected surprises in AI video technology and commercial applications in the future will determine whether it can continue to gain the favor of capital.

Harvard interviewer called her "almost perfect"

Has caused a sensation in A-shares

It is reported that Guo Wenjing is the co-founder and CEO of Pika. Before founding Pika, Guo Wenjing had a PhD in AI from Stanford University. It is worth noting that she is also the daughter of Guo Huaqiang, the actual controller of the listed company Xinyada (600571. SH), and is currently a US citizen.

According to public information, Guo Wenjing obtained a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Harvard University and pursued a Master's degree in Computer Science. He then transferred to Stanford University to pursue a doctoral degree in the interdisciplinary field of graphics and neural language programming. He has interned at companies such as Microsoft and Google and possesses strong engineering and research abilities.

As early as more than eight years ago, Guo Wenjing became famous for his "high looks and academic prowess". Eight years ago, Guo Wenjing, a graduate of Hangzhou No.2 High School in 2016, received an admission notice from Harvard University. She was also the first student from Hangzhou No.2 High School to be admitted to Harvard University during her undergraduate studies.

According to the Qianjiang Evening News, Guo Wenjing studied at Hangzhou No.2 Middle School (also known as Hangzhou No.2 Middle School). In my freshman year of high school, I won first prize in the National Youth Informatics Olympiad (Zhejiang Province Division) and was invited by MIT to participate in the competition. I finished second in the North American Programming Invitational, surpassing the majority of university teams from Harvard, Stanford, and Carnegie Mellon. In 2014 and 2015, he participated in the National Informatics Olympiad in the United States for two consecutive years and won championships.

Pika, which once caused a sensation in A-shares, has been silent for six months before receiving new news. Recently, Pika Labs, an AI video generation startup founded by Guo Wenjing, a "genius girl" born in 1995, announced on its official website that the company has recently completed a Series B financing of $80 million (approximately RMB 580 million). This round of financing is funded by Spark Capit

Pika, which once caused a sensation in A-shares, has been silent for six months before receiving new news. Recently, Pika Labs, an AI video generation startup founded by Guo Wenjing, a "genius girl" born in 1995, announced on its official website that the company has recently completed a Series B financing of $80 million (approximately RMB 580 million). This round of financing is funded by Spark Capit

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In the eyes of his classmates, Guo Wenjing is more promiscuous than other girls and often busy with debate club activities outside. "She has a lot of things to do every day, unlike other girls who spend their breaks doing exercises in the reading room."

In the eyes of Ye Cuiwei, the then principal of Hangzhou No.2 Middle School, Guo Wenjing knew what he wanted and what he had to face. especially her unique personality. "At the age of 15, he was able to fly to the United States alone and teach American children Olympiad lessons, earning a salary of $2000."

In the eyes of a Harvard undergraduate interviewer, "I have been interviewing in the China region for 6 years, and she is one of the best students. Her computer skills are also among the top among female programmers of the same age in the United States. She scored out of 5 in the American college preparatory exam, was very fluent in English, and had a high appearance, almost perfect."

And the A-share listed company, Xinyada, has also attracted attention due to its "daughter concept stock", causing a sensation.

At the end of November last year, Xinya's stock price doubled as it continued to hit the limit up. On the relevant stock forum, some investors were puzzled by the rise of Xinyada, while another investor succinctly replied, "My daughter is amazing.".

580 million yuan! The highly attractive "genius girl" born in 1995 received financing again and was once rated as "almost perfect"

580 million yuan! The highly attractive "genius girl" born in 1995 received financing again and was once rated as "almost perfect"

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According to the data, Guo Huaqiang was born in 1956 and graduated from China central Radio and Television University with a major in finance in 1986, as well as an MBA from Zhejiang University. Guo Huaqiang previously served as the Software department Chief of the Technology Department of Industrial and Commercial Bank of Zhejiang Province, and Vice Chairman and president of Hangzhou Xinli Electronics Co., Ltd. Founded Xinyada in 1996 and served as Executive director and Chairman. Now that he has stepped down from his position as chairman, he remains the actual controller of the company.

It is reported that Xinyada's main business is financial institutions mainly focused on the banking industry, providing end-to-end professional solutions and products. Its main products are software products, hardware sales, and environmental protection products.

According to the 2022 annual report of Xinyada, the company is committed to building AI bases. The annual report shows that by focusing on the deep integration of new technologies and financial businesses, the company has a multi-level full stack product and service capability of "digital base+technology base+AI base+application platform+co creation and development+subscription services+joint operation", which helps banks and other financial customers accelerate digital transformation and help the Chinese financial industry quickly achieve digital intelligence.

Among them, the AI base is composed of two major modules: capability output and capability construction. It has achieved breakthroughs in research and development in four areas: OCR (Optical character Recognition), NPL, data modeling, and knowledge graph around the company's main product line.



句子分析1:

According to public information, Guo Wenjing obtained a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Harvard University and pursued a Master's degree in Computer Science.

句子成分分析

[According to public information], Guo Wenjing obtained a Bachelor's degree [in Mathematics] [from Harvard University] and pursued a Master's degree [in Computer Science].

句子语法结构详解:

* obtained 为谓语,采用一般过去时。
* pursued 为谓语,采用一般过去时。
* Bachelor's, Master's 为名词所有格。a 为不定冠词。

相关语法知识:
   时态
   并列连词
   名词所有格

句子相关词汇解释:

Phrase:

according to根据,据(某人)所述
Harvard University哈佛大学
master's degree硕士学位
computer science计算机科学;电脑科学


Vocabulary:

public ['pʌblik]a. 1) 公共的,公立的  2) 平民的,大众的,公众的,百姓的
information [,infә'meiʃәn]n. 1) 信息,消息,情报,资料,资讯  2) 书的信息内容
obtain [әb'tein]vt. (尤指经努力)获得,赢得
bachelor ['bætʃәlә]n. 1) 获学士学位的人  2) 未婚男子, 单身汉
degree [di'gri:]n. 1) 大学学位  2) 度数,度  3) 程度
mathematics [,mæθә'mætiks]n. 1) 数学  2) 运算,计算
and [ænd]conj. 1) 和, 与, 同, 并  2) 然后,接着
pursue [pә'sju:]vt. 1) 追逐,跟踪,追赶  2) 追求,致力于,执行,贯彻

句子语法错误检查:

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句子分析2:

 He has interned at companies such as Microsoft and Google and possesses strong engineering and research abilities.

句子成分分析:

He has interned at companies (such as Microsoft and Google and)
possesses strong engineering and research abilities.

句子语法结构详解:

* interned 为谓语,采用现在完成时。
* possesses 为谓语,采用一般现在时。动词采用第三人称单数形式。
* research 为谓语。
* he 为人称代词主格。has 为助动词。

相关语法知识:
   时态
   并列连词
   动词的第三人称单数形式
   人称代词 | 助动词

句子相关词汇解释:

Phrase:

such as1) 例如,比如  2) 像……那样的,诸如……之类的


Vocabulary:

intern [in'tә:n]vt. (战争期间或由于政治原因未经审讯)拘留,禁闭,关押
company ['kʌmpәni]n. 1) 公司  2) 陪伴
and [ænd]conj. 1) 和, 与, 同, 并  2) 然后,接着
Googlen. 谷歌(美国互联网搜索引擎公司)
possess [pә'zes]vt. 1) 有,拥有  2) 具有(特质)
strong [strɔŋ]a. 1) 强壮的  2) 强的,强劲的
engineering [,endʒi'niәriŋ]n. 1) 工程学  2) 工程
research [ri'sә:tʃ]vt. 研究,探讨,调查
ability [ә'biliti]n. 1) 能力  2) 才能,本领,才智

句子语法错误检查:

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句子相关学习点:

 as, when, while 的区别



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