# Zhizi Engine

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

- Industry: Software
- Headquarters: Nanjing, China
- Latest round: Angel (Aug 24, 2023)
- Investors on record: 2

## About

Based in Nanjing, China and founded in 2021, Zhizi Engine operates as a multimodal macromodel research and developer, focusing on the development of application-level multimodal ChatGPT products. The CEO of the company Yizhao Gao, is a PhD student of Renmin University of China. Zhiwu Lu, the advisor to the company, is the Chief AI Scientist of iSoftStone. In May 2023, Zhizi Engine raised CNY 10 million in Angel funding. In August 2023, it completed an angel+ funding. In June 2024, the firm closed a pre-series A funding.

The company's application-grade multimodal ChatGPT product, "Meta Multiply Image ChatImg", has a participant count in the tens of billions. The product combines image and text pair data and VQA data to train for various tasks such as image matching, image retrieval, image description generation and text description generation simultaneously. The model is able to chat intelligently, tell stories and write ads based on user input of images or text. Zhizi Engine also developed a graphic search model BriVL and the H5 app "AI Mood Radio".

The company’s revenue is generated by providing a multi-modal big model.

## Funding rounds

- Angel, Aug 24, 2023 — China International Capital Corporation, Ruantong High-Tech

## Investors

- China International Capital Corporation (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/china-international-capital-corporation) — Angel
- Ruantong High-Tech — Angel