On January 12, 2022, the autonomous driving chip company “Black Sesame Intelligence” held a 5th Anniversary Media Communication Meeting.
Black Sesame Intelligence CMO Yang Yuxin, Black Sesame Intelligence Application Engineering Vice President Deng Kun, Black Sesame Intelligence Marketing Director Huang Ying and dozens of media attended. At the communication meeting, Black Sesame Intelligence interpreted its development history, brand strategy, product and technology advantages.
On the same day, Black Sesame Intelligence announced that it had received strategic investment from Bosch’s subsidiary, Bosch Capital. In the future, the two sides will deepen cooperation in the field of autonomous driving, work together to build smart driving solutions, and promote the commercialization of autonomous driving. As early as 2018, Black Sesame Intelligence signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement with Bosch and carried out cooperation in many fields such as smart cities, smart homes, intelligent networked cars and autonomous driving.
Since its establishment in 2016, Black Sesame Intelligence has been focusing on research and development of high-performance computing chips, platforms and other technology fields. Black Sesame Intelligence claims that it can provide a complete autonomous driving and vehicle-road cooperative solution, including autonomous driving perception computing chips based on vehicle-level design, learning-based image processing, low-power accurate perception, and autonomous driving computing platforms. Currently, Black Sesame Intelligence has launched the Huashan series of 2nd generation, 4 high-performance autonomous driving computing chips and released the Shanhai artificial intelligence development platform.
At the media communication meeting, Black Sesame Intelligence CMO Yang Yuxin said: “Black Sesame Intelligence is positioned as Tier 2 and is building a computing platform for autonomous driving. We have established a complete system, including chips, algorithms, data, software and tools.”
In terms of algorithms, the Shanhai artificial intelligence development platform currently launched by Black Sesame Intelligence has more than 50 AI reference model library conversion examples, which reduce the algorithm development threshold for customers, and can achieve comprehensive optimization of QAT and post-training quantization to ensure the accuracy of algorithm models, support dynamic heterogeneous multi-core task assignment, and also support custom operator development, perfect toolchain development package, and application support, can achieve a one-stop process for fast model porting and deployment.
In terms of data, Black Sesame Intelligence can provide a data closed-loop system oriented to data security to ensure data security and controllability. In terms of software, Black Sesame Intelligence can already provide a software-hardware fully decoupled solution from development to mass production.## About Black Sesame Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.
Black Sesame Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. was founded in 2016 with research and sales centers established in Wuhan, Silicon Valley, Shanghai, Chengdu, Shenzhen, Chongqing, and Singapore. Currently, it has over 500 employees with core team members from major companies such as Bosch, OV, and Nvidia, averaging over 15 years of industry experience.
Black Sesame Intelligent Technology is an autonomous driving chip and platform development company at the automotive regulations level, focusing on research and development in the areas of high-performance computing chips and platforms. They offer complete autonomous driving and vehicle-road coordination solutions, including self-driving perception computing chips and autonomous driving computing platforms designed at the automotive regulations level, learning-based image processing, low-power, high-precision perception. This supports the rapid industrialization of autonomous driving products and solutions in the supply chain of the industry.
In August 2019, Black Sesame released the first automotive regulations level intelligent driving chip, Huashan A 500, in China. In June 2020, it released the second automotive regulations level intelligent driving perception chip Huashan No.2 A 1000 which became the first domestically produced chip that supports L2+ autonomous driving. In April 2021, the Huashan No.2 A 1000 Pro was released at the Shanghai Auto Show, and a single chip can support advanced autonomous driving functions. In 2020, Black Sesame joined the Baidu Apollo Open Ecology for a deep collaboration based on Huashan series autonomous driving chips.
The company has been engaged in business cooperation in L2/3 ADAS and autonomous driving perception system solutions with China FAW, Bosch, SAIC, Baidu, Dongfeng Yueda Kia, T3, Junlian Zhixing, ZhongKe ChuangDa, Asia Pacific, and other companies. Algorithms and image processing technologies have been deployed and commercially landed in consumer electronics, such as smartphones, smart cars, and smart homes.
In September 2021, the company completed strategic and Series C financing of hundreds of millions of US dollars. The strategic round was invested by Xiaomi Changjiang Industry Fund, Fusi Automotive, and others; the Series C financing was led by Xiaomi Changjiang Industry Fund and followed by Wentai Aitel Investment. The post-investment valuation of the strategic round and Series C reached nearly 2 billion U.S. dollars, making it a unicorn company.
🔗Source: [Black Sesame Technology Official]()
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