Date: 2023-04-19
On April 18, 2023, the 9th China Guangzhou International
Investment Annual Conference and 2023 Global Unicorn CEO Conference was held in
Guangzhou. The conference was hosted by Huangpu District, Guangzhou, and Hurun
Report. More than 500 guests, including heads of global unicorn companies in
China, founders of Chinese unicorn companies, unicorn investment institutions
and well-known entrepreneurs, attended the conference and talked about new
trends in the development of the digital economy. At the conference, the Hurun
Research Institute officially released the "2023 Global Unicorn
List", and MetaX was on the list with its high innovation and
growth capabilities. Eagle Sun, co-founder/CMO of MetaX,
and Tan Zongren, vice president of MetaX Business
Engineering, were invited to attend the conference.
The "2023 Global Unicorn List" lists unlisted
companies established after 2000 and valued at more than US$1 billion. The
cut-off date for calculating the valuation of the list is December 31, 2022.
Hoogewerf, chairman and chief research officer of Hurun Report, said that
looking forward to and predicting new opportunities for future economic
development, unicorn companies are good reference indicators because they
represent the wind direction of the new economy.
Founded in September 2020, MetaX
is committed to providing full-stack GPU chips and solutions for heterogeneous
computing. Since its establishment more than two years ago, MetaX
has actively promoted product research and development and ecological
construction, demonstrating strong industrial resource gathering capabilities,
product research and development execution capabilities, and industrial ecology
upstream and downstream layout capabilities. At present, MetaX’s
first heterogeneous GPU product MXN100 has achieved mass production at the end
of 2022, and the second flagship GPU chip MXC500, which is mainly used for general computing, has been taped out at the end of 2022 and is
expected to achieve mass production by the end of 2023. In terms of ecological
construction, MetaX actively leverages its advantages in the GPU
field, carries out in-depth cooperation in combination with the industrial
ecology of the business radiation areas, and cooperates with industry customers
and partners to jointly create an application ecological alliance and build an
independent and controllable domestic computing power ecology.
Eagle Sun, co-founder and CMO of MetaX,
attended the Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Manufacturing Forum and
participated in a roundtable discussion, focusing on the theme of "How
Artificial Intelligence 2.0 Reshape the Digital Economy", and discussed
the issues that need to be broken through in the process of China's
manufacturing to intelligent development , and how to provide users with
products with both high-quality and intelligent experience. Eagle Sun said that
in recent years, great breakthroughs have been made in the research and
development of AI technology, especially the upgraded application of
large-scale language models based on generative AI technology, which has
greatly stimulated the demand for massive computing power and improved
production efficiency. Facilities put forward higher requirements, and there is
an urgent need to create more efficient GPU chips and solutions and a complete
application ecosystem. As an active practitioner of the new computing power
infrastructure, MetaX is committed to providing energy-efficient
and highly versatile full-stack GPU products for the digital transformation and
upgrading of various industries, building a comprehensive ecological solution
integrating software and hardware for customers, and providing artificial
intelligence The development of the intelligent industry creates a solid base
of computing power to help my country's digital economy achieve leapfrog
development.