On March 6, Kaiyuan China (Open Source Consensus (Shanghai) Network Technology Co., Ltd.), a leading company in the open source technology ecosystem, announced that it had successfully completed a C round of financing of hundreds of millions of yuan. This round of financing was led by Beijing Information Industry Development Investment Fund (Beijing Xinyuan Fund), followed by Shenzhen Investment Yiben Equity Investment Fund (Shenzhen Investment Yiben) and Beijing Shanghe Momentum Private Equity Fund (Shanghe Momentum), and Index Capital serves as financial advisor. This financing will be mainly used to deepen the company's AI strategy, expand the product matrix, promote intelligent solutions for software and hardware collaboration, and accelerate the implementation of AI technology in the industrial field.
Ma Yue, founder and chairman of Kaiyuan China, said that this round of financing has received strong support from new and old shareholders, fully reflecting his confidence in the company and the domestic open source ecosystem. He particularly thanked Index Capital for its professional help, saying that its deep understanding of open source and AI fields has promoted the success of financing and looks forward to further deepening cooperation in the future. Wei Wei, managing director of Index Capital, pointed out that Kaiyuan China has found the best path in open source ecology, information and innovation replacement and commercialization. Its AI big model platform "Moli Ark" benchmarks against top overseas manufacturers and lays a solid foundation for the company's long-term development.
It is understood that Open Source China operates the oschina.net community and Gitee platform with 18 million developers, serving 360,000 corporate users, and its DevOps tool chain has a penetration rate of up to 80% in the fields of finance, military industry, etc. The "Mutual Ark" platform launched in 2024 aggregates thousands of open source models, provides full-stack AI services, and is adapted to domestic GPUs to run a billion-level model. The company has received more than 1.6 billion yuan in investments, and its shareholders include well-known companies such as Baidu and Huawei, and has built an ecological system of "national team + industrial side + marketization".
Based on the developer ecosystem, Open Source China has taken the lead in verifying the feasible path to open source commercialization and is moving towards the goal of "the first open source AI stock". Investment institutions are unanimously optimistic about its huge potential in the fields of AI and information innovation, and believe that it will help China occupy core competitiveness in the global AI2.0 era.