DiffuSpace, a diffusion intelligence company, has secured several hundred million yuan in funding and will release a larger-parameter model in October.

DiffuSpace has completed two consecutive rounds of financing, with a total amount of several hundred million RMB, setting the record for the largest-scale financing in the global diffusion language model sector. The rounds were jointly led by Matrix Partners China, Shunwei Capital, and Legend Capital, with participation from CAS Star, Huawei Hubble, Horizon Robotics, and others. According to public information, DiffuSpace is one of the earliest teams globally to invest in diffusion language model research. It was co-founded by Professor Kong Lingpeng, co-director of the HKU NLP Lab, along with his doctoral students Gong Sansan and Ye Jiacheng, and is based in Shenzhen.