36 氪首发 | 加速企业级 AI 基础设施建设，「第四范式」完成 C+ 轮融资，估值约 20 亿美元

36 氪获悉，「第四范式」近期宣布完成 C+ 轮融资，C 轮两次融资总额达 2.3 亿美元。新战略股东包括思科、中信银行、联想，财务资方为松禾资本、基石资本，投后估值约 20 亿美元。本轮融资将用于产品市场拓展、研发投入以及产业生态链建设等，加快和扩大 AI 全行业赋能的速度和规模。

此前，「第四范式」共完成了 5 轮融资。2015 年，第四范式曾获得来自红杉资本 Pre-A 轮融资；2016 年获得来自红杉资本、创新工场投资的 A 轮融资；2017 年获得元生资本领投的 B 轮融资，以及来自中国工商银行、中国银行、中国建设银行等三家国有银行及所属基金的联合战略投资。2018 年完成 C 轮融资，引入包括国新启迪、保利、三峡、中信、农业银行、交银国际等战略股东。

第四范式成立于 2014 年，已经成为一家从算法到计算完全自主可控的平台型 AI 公司，以助力企业实现智能化转型、优化企业的效率与决策为目标，为企业提供硬件算力基础设施、人工智能平台、智能业务应用系统等端到端、全流程的产品体系和基础架构，主要软件产品包括企业数智化引擎「天枢」、AI 核心系统「4Paradigm Sage」、AI 硬件基础设施「4Paradigm SageOne」等。

基于这些低门槛、高价值并具备规模化产能的人工智能产品，第四范式在众多新兴的市场中成功开辟了 AI 落地和行业应用方向，业务覆盖融、零售、医疗、制造、互联网、政府、能源、运营商和媒体等众多领域。

疫情期间，为帮助传统企业应对突然爆发的在线需求和线上化业务，第四范式推出了一站式智能流量运营技术平台，通过智能推荐、智能搜索、智能推送、智能客服等 AI 技术引擎帮助企业实现「以消费者为中心」的智能化、精细化线上运营，解决流量暴涨引起的消费者体验不佳、资源调配优化不足等问题。比如，第四范式为国际知名连锁餐饮集团提供智能推荐点餐系统，提升了消费者用餐体验，单渠道全年销售额提升数亿元。

此外，在金融领域，第四范式目前与超过 80% 的大型国有及股份制商业银行进行深度合作，为众多金融机构提供了以客户为中心的专属服务系统、以稳健风控为核心的产品决策系统和以敏捷高效为基础的运营管理系统。在医疗领域，第四范式为医疗服务场景提供全栈的 AI 能力，已完成「胰腺癌术后生存分析预测」、「新生儿体重预测」等项目的落地应用，并与上海瑞金医院合作开发「瑞宁知糖」慢性病健康管理产品，已在 30 多个省市的 400 多家医院投入使用；互联网媒体端，第四范式主要帮媒体合作伙伴做基于 AI 技术的信息流推荐，有超过上千家合作伙伴。

值得一提的是，基于原有的先知人工智能平台，第四范式针对疫情期间的精准防控，迅速研发出精准防控筛查、疫情推演及传染路径追踪等三大 AI 防疫系统协助抗疫。据悉，该防疫系统有三个特点：第一，借助 AI 高维模型，系统可丰富已有的防控筛查规则模型，提升对高危人群的筛查准确率，实现「早发现、早隔离」；第二，构建了接近现实情况的省市区县级数字孪生系统，针对不同政策对疫情的影响进行预演预测，为制定有效防控政策提供依据；第三，该系统可以快速追踪病毒传播路径，辅助防疫部门控制疫情。

公司客户方面，第四范式目前服务了超过 8000 家客户，成功落地的案例达 12000 多个。其中，头部客户包括工商银行、招商银行、中石油、百胜中国、永辉超市、人民日报、瑞金医院等。根据 2019 年 IDC 发布的《IDC MarketScape: 中国机器学习开发平台市场评估》报告，第四范式居中国机器学习平台市场份额第一的位置，领先于 BAT、微软、AWS 等巨头。
Krypton learned that the fourth paradigm recently announced the completion of round C + financing, with the total amount of two rounds of C + financing reaching US $230 million. The new strategic shareholders include Cisco, China CITIC Bank and Lenovo. The financial capital is Songhe capital and cornerstone capital, with a post investment valuation of about $2 billion. This round of financing will be used for product market expansion, R & D investment and industrial ecological chain construction, etc., to speed up and expand the speed and scale of AI industry empowerment.
Before that, the “fourth paradigm” has completed five rounds of financing. In 2015, the fourth paradigm obtained pre-A round of financing from Sequoia Capital; in 2016, it obtained a round of financing from Sequoia Capital and Innovation workshop investment; in 2017, it obtained B round of financing led by Yuansheng capital, and joint strategic investment from three state-owned banks and funds including industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Bank of China and China Construction Bank. In 2018, we completed round C financing and introduced strategic shareholders such as Guoxin Tus, poly, Three Gorges, CITIC, Agricultural Bank of China and bocom international.
The fourth paradigm was established in 2014, and has become a platform AI that is completely autonomous and controllable from algorithm to calculation The company aims to help enterprises realize intelligent transformation and optimize their efficiency and decision-making. It provides end-to-end and whole process product systems and infrastructures for enterprises, such as hardware computing infrastructure, artificial intelligence platform, intelligent business application system, etc. its main software products include enterprise digital intelligence engine “Tianshu”, AI core system “4paradigm sage”, AI core system Hardware infrastructure “4paradigm sageone”, etc.
Based on these AI products with low threshold, high value and large-scale production capacity, the fourth paradigm has successfully opened up AI landing and industry application direction in many emerging markets, covering many fields such as finance, retail, medical, manufacturing, Internet, government, energy, operators and media.
During the epidemic, in order to help traditional enterprises cope with the sudden outbreak of online demand and online business, the fourth paradigm launched a one-stop intelligent traffic operation technology platform, through intelligent recommendation, intelligent search, intelligent push, intelligent customer service and other AI Technology Engine helps enterprises realize “consumer centered” intelligent and refined online operation, and solve problems such as poor consumer experience and insufficient resource allocation and optimization caused by traffic surge. For example, the fourth paradigm provides an intelligent recommendation ordering system for internationally renowned chain catering groups, which improves the dining experience of consumers and increases the annual sales of single channel by several hundred million yuan.
In addition, in the field of finance, the fourth paradigm currently has in-depth cooperation with more than 80% of large state-owned and joint-stock commercial banks, providing many financial institutions with a customer-centric exclusive service system, a product decision-making system with robust risk control as the core, and an operation management system based on agile and efficient. In the medical field, the fourth paradigm provides a full stack of AI capabilities for medical service scenarios. It has completed the implementation of projects such as “survival analysis and prediction of pancreatic cancer after surgery” and “newborn weight prediction”, and cooperated with Shanghai Ruijin Hospital to develop “ruining Zhitang” chronic disease health management products. It has been in more than 400 provinces and cities A number of hospitals have been put into use; Internet media end, the fourth paradigm mainly helps media partners to recommend information flow based on AI technology, with more than 1000 partners.
It is worth mentioning that, based on the original prophet artificial intelligence platform, the fourth paradigm rapidly developed three AI epidemic prevention systems, including precise prevention and control screening, epidemic simulation and infection path tracking, to assist in anti epidemic. It is reported that the epidemic prevention system has three characteristics: first, with the aid of AI High dimensional model, the system can enrich the existing prevention and control screening rule model, improve the screening accuracy of high-risk groups, and achieve “early detection and early isolation”; secondly, a provincial, urban and county-level digital twin system close to the reality has been constructed to predict the impact of different policies on the epidemic situation and provide basis for the formulation of effective prevention and control policies; thirdly, the system can quickly Track the route of virus transmission and assist the epidemic prevention department to control the epidemic situation.
In terms of corporate customers, the fourth paradigm currently serves more than 8000 customers, with more than 12000 successful cases. Among them, the head customers include industrial and Commercial Bank of China, China Merchants Bank, PetroChina, yum China, Yonghui supermarket, people’s daily, Ruijin Hospital, etc. According to IDC marketscape: market evaluation of China’s machine learning development platform released by IDC in 2019, the fourth paradigm ranks first in China’s machine learning platform market share, and is ahead of bat, Microsoft, AWS and other giants.