Mianbao AI Raises Over 5 Billion Yuan
快鲤鱼 · wechat · 2026-07-16
Mianbao AI (Facebrick Intelligence) announced a new funding round, with investors including national funds, state-owned enterprises, automobile manufacturers, and financial investors. The article states that the company has raised over 5 billion yuan cumulatively by the first half of 2026, with a valuation exceeding 20 billion yuan, making it one of the highest-valued on-device intelligence unicorns publicly. The article reviews Mianbao's path from incubation in Tsinghua NLP lab, to the MiniCPM series open-source models, to deployment in automotive, mobile, AIPC, embodied intelligence, and enterprise office scenarios, emphasizing its "on-device only" technical route and commercialization progress.
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