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Tsinghua professor's stealth LLM startup Naive AI hits $1.4B valuation

Naive AI, a large language model startup founded by a Tsinghua University professor and operated largely in stealth, has reached a $1.4 billion valuation. The figure, reported by Dealroom data, puts the young Chinese AI company among the fast-growing cohort of LLM ventures attracting unicorn-level valuations, underscoring continued investor appetite for foundational AI models emerging from China's academic ecosystem.

Why now: A stealth-mode Chinese AI startup reaching unicorn valuation highlights ongoing investor enthusiasm for LLM companies.

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