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Tongxin Intelligent Raises Hundreds of Millions for AGI Chip

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  • Tongxin Intelligent completed several hundred million yuan in seed and angel financing to fund AGI chip architecture design and pre-tape-out research.
  • Founded in April 2026 by AI scientist Zhu Songchun, the startup is developing an inference chip for large models, world models, and general agents.
  • Its FPGA prototype verification is scheduled to begin in early December, marking a key step toward validating the chip architecture.

NextFin News — AGI architecture chip developer Tongxin Intelligent has completed several hundred million yuan in consecutive seed and angel financing rounds.

Investors include the Tsinghua Alumni Seed Fund, Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence, Songlin Technology, Pingzhi Information, Dark Object Intelligence and Yuzi Zhangquan. Proceeds will primarily support core architecture design and research and development ahead of chip tape-out.

Founded in April 2026 by AI scientist Zhu Songchun, director of the Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence and a chair professor at Peking University and Tsinghua University, the company is developing its first product as an inference chip designed to support AGI algorithms for large models, world models and general agents. FPGA prototype verification is scheduled to begin in early December.

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