Shanghai's Moss Intelligence Raises $149M for Real-Time Multimodal AI
The two-year-old Shanghai startup, spun out of Fudan University's OpenMOSS team, secured a Pre-A round led by Huakong Fund.
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Moss Intelligence, a Shanghai-based artificial intelligence startup, has raised $149 million in a Pre-A funding round led by Huakong Fund, according to Ventureburn. The sum is roughly equivalent to RMB 1 billion.
The company, also referred to as Mosi or MOSS AI and formally registered as Shanghai Mosi Intelligence Technology, launched in late 2024. It grew out of the OpenMOSS team at Fudan University, which is led by Professor Qiu Xipeng. Qiu serves as the company's founder and chief scientist.
Qiu's lab released MOSS in 2023, described by Ventureburn as China's first open-source ChatGPT-style model. The team has since expanded beyond text into speech, vision and audio. Ventureburn reported that in 2026 the company shipped close to 20 models, including MOSS-TTS, MOSS-Audio and MOSS-VL.
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