Aofei Animation's involvement in artificial intelligence targets has nearly tripled in half a year

Aofei Animation, which continues to engage in mergers and acquisitions in the animation industry, has now extended its reach to artificial intelligence. The company announced on the 20th that it plans to invest 50 million yuan in Guangnian Unlimited to obtain a 5% stake in the company.

Aofei Animation, which continues to engage in mergers and acquisitions in the animation industry, has now extended its reach to artificial intelligence. The company announced on the 20th that it plans to invest 50 million yuan in Beijing Guangnian Unlimited Technology Co., Ltd.(hereinafter referred to as Guangnian Unlimited) and obtain a 5% stake in the company.

The reporter noticed that another listed company, Jiangnan Chemical, had invested the same amount in Guangnian Unlimited six months ago, but obtained a 14.44% stake. Based on this calculation, the valuation of Light Year Infinite has nearly tripled in just half a year, which is enough to highlight that the field of artificial intelligence is being sought after by capital.

50 million people involved in "Turing Robot"

According to the announcement, Guangnian Infinite was established in July 2010 with a registered capital of 307,540 yuan. Natural person Yu Zhichen is the chairman and legal representative of the company. In terms of equity structure, Yu Zhichen holds 35.64% of the shares, making him the company's largest shareholder; the remaining equity is held by a total of 8 shareholders including Fanruida Technology.

Financial data shows that as of October 31, 2015, Guangnian Infinite's total assets were 53.405 million yuan, and its net assets were 52.29 million yuan; from January to October 2015, the company's operating income was 920,200 yuan, and its net profit loss was 4.4813 million yuan. After evaluation, on the benchmark date of October 31, 2015, under the assumption of going concern, the assessed value of all shareholders 'equity of Guangnian Infinite is 1 billion yuan. Aofei Animation invested 50 million yuan in the company this time, of which 16,186 yuan was included in the company's registered capital, and the rest was included in the capital provident fund. After the capital increase was completed, Guangnian Unlimited's registered capital increased from 307.54 million yuan to 323,726 million yuan, with Aofei Animation holding 5%.

According to the announcement, Guangnian Infinite is a company focusing on the development of intelligent robot operating systems, semantic understanding for artificial intelligence deep learning and the development and scenario application of cognitive computing technology.

The cloud robot brain developed by the company-Turing Robot can provide third parties with integrated, low access and use barriers to cloud robot brain services, enabling third-party products to quickly have intelligent human-computer interaction functions and have a wide range of application scenarios.

According to public information, Guangnian Unlimited's mobile Internet product "Wormhole Voice Assistant" based on the background of Turing Robot has been downloaded by more than 35 million users; after the Turing Robot Platform was opened, it has provided intelligent man-machine dialogue to more than 60,000 partners. and Q & A interactive service, the corresponding user interaction requests have reached more than 10 billion times. It is currently an artificial intelligence robot with high intelligence in the Chinese context.

Regarding this investment, Aofei Animation believes that Guangnian Infinite's product application prospects are broad, and the company's capital increase can obtain the right to priority cooperation with its business, which will help combine the company's artificial intelligence technology with the company's toy business and realize the company's toy business. Upgrading and upgrading the company's toy business, developing intelligent robots and smart toy products belonging to the company, helping the company enter the field of artificial intelligence.

Jiangnan Chemical has the lead.

It is worth mentioning that Aofei Animation is not the first A-share listed company to invest unlimited years. As a chemical company, Jiangnan Chemical even took the lead.

On July 4, 2015, Jiangnan Chemical announced that it would increase its capital in cash for Guangnian without limit; at the same time, another capital increase party, Suzhou Industrial Park and Yu Shengwei Equity Investment Partnership (hereinafter referred to as Suzhou Heyu), also planned to increase capital in Guangnian without limit. Among them, Jiangnan Chemical invested 50 million yuan, 44.41 million yuan was included in the registered capital, and 49.95559 million yuan was included in the capital reserve. After the investment is completed, the company holds 12.62% of Guangnian's unlimited registered capital.

However, in August 2015, Jiangnan Chemical announced that due to comprehensive consideration of factors such as resource coordination, business philosophy and project progress, Guangnian infinitely decided to abandon the original capital increase of Suzhou Heyu. However, Jiangnan Chemical's capital increase was not affected. Thanks to this "good", Jiangnan Chemical finally invested 50 million yuan but obtained a 14.44% equity. Based on this calculation, the valuation of Light Years at the time was about 346 million yuan. In other words, in less than half a year, its valuation has increased nearly twice, and this value-added rate can be described as rapid.

In fact, at present, Guangnian Infinite, which continues to lose money, has a flat business, and its valuation has risen sharply, perhaps due to the rise of the concept of artificial intelligence.

CES is the top priority in the technology industry at the beginning of each year, and to some extent, it has almost become a vane of the development trend of the technology industry. At the CES exhibition held from January 6 to 9, 2016, artificial intelligence became the most eye-catching focus. Artificial intelligence products such as driverless driving and robots have become the focus of major giants 'competition for fame.

From the perspective of the market and securities firms, it is almost a consensus that the artificial intelligence industry is approaching due to factors such as the aging of society and rising labor costs, and policy level support.

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