# AI Being

Startup profile on Capital Atlas: https://capitalatlas.ai/startups/ai-being

- Industry: Software
- Headquarters: Beijing, China
- Website: www.xiaoice.com
- Total disclosed funding: $77M
- Latest round: Series A (Jul 12, 2021)
- Investors on record: 7

## About

Based in Beijing, China, and established in 2020, MsXiaobing doing business named AI Being, is an internet technology company that focuses on providing artificial intelligence (AI) interactive solutions. The company was formerly the artificial intelligence Xiaoice team of Microsoft (Asia) Internet Engineering Institute. Di Li, the company's CEO, served as the vice president of Microsoft (Asia) Internet Engineering Institute. It has additional offices in Suzhou, Beijing, and Tokyo. And its services and products cover 606 million online users and 900 million content users. Its clients cover the financial, real estate, textile, retail, vehicle, and sports industries, such as Youku, Changan, and Vanke.  

AI Being provides AI business solutions for digital characters, content generation, automobiles plus the internet of things (IoT), and sports. Its digital characters include virtual employees, virtual experts, virtual singers, and virtual chatbots. Those virtual characters support image customized, content generation, real-time rendering, and human-machine interaction. AI content generators can create music content, and industrial design plans. AI Being provides AI voice assistants for the automobile and home industry. Also, AI Being provides AI assistant training, AI competition judgment, and athlete profile management for sports.

AI Being will update its operating 300,000 virtual employees, including conversation engine, 3D rendering, natural voice, and AI content generation, as well as market its virtual employees.

## Funding rounds

- Series A, Jul 12, 2021, $77M — NLVC, IDG Capital, 5Y Capital, Hillhouse Investment, Sanren Capital, Neumann Advisory Hong Kong, Jiyuan Capital

## Investors

- NLVC (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/nlvc) — Series A
- IDG Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/idg-capital) — Series A
- 5Y Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/5y-capital) — Series A
- Hillhouse Investment (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/hillhouse-investment) — Series A
- Sanren Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/sanren-capital) — Series A
- Neumann Advisory Hong Kong — Series A
- Jiyuan Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/jiyuan-capital) — Series A