HiDream.ai raises RMB 1.5 billion in Series C, topping RMB 2.1 billion in 3 months
快鲤鱼 · wechat · 2026-07-23
HiDream.ai raises RMB 1.5 billion in C round, tops RMB 2.1 billion in 3 months
HiDream.ai announced a RMB 1.5 billion Series C round led by multiple state-backed and industrial investors. The company says it has closed three rounds in the past three months, bringing total financing to more than RMB 2.1 billion and officially entering unicorn territory.
What the article says about the company
- Founded in 2023, HiDream is positioning itself around a native multimodal architecture called UiT.
- It claims its open-source image model ranked first on a major benchmark, while its commercial model ranks third globally on ArtificialAnalysis, behind OpenAI.
- The company says HiDream-I1 surpassed 2 million downloads and HiDream-E1.1 reached the top tier in image-editing agent rankings.
Products and business
- The firm has built a 1+1+3 structure: foundation models, an enterprise platform, and three vertical agents.
- Its enterprise platform uses a TokenHub API layer to orchestrate multiple models and reduce inference cost.
- At WAIC 2026, it launched vivagoR1, a multimodal content agent for unlimited-length video creation.
- It also claims 2025 revenue exceeded RMB 100 million, with Q1 2026 signed revenue above RMB 400 million.
Broader context
The piece frames HiDream as part of a wider race toward multimodal world models, comparing it with Vidu, PixVerse, and Google’s Gemini Omni. The central argument is that the market is shifting from text-only LLMs toward systems that can perceive, simulate, and act in the real world.
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