Alibaba Group has cast a vote of confidence in one of its former interns: it will lead a $300 million round of financing for AI training and evaluation startup UniPat AI, based on a valuation of 2.5 billion US dollars. People familiar with the matter said that the financing will soon be completed, and institutions such as Tencent Holdings and the original investor Sequoia China are also participating; negotiations are still ongoing, and the terms of the deal are still likely to change. Since the matter was not made public, people familiar with the matter requested anonymity. UniPat was founded in late 2025 and is designed to test and evaluate real-world scenarios for AI models. Founder Li Kuan worked at Alibaba's Tongyi AI Lab last year, focusing on post-training analysis, data synthesis, and reinforcement learning. His company is focused on generating detailed training and evaluation data, which it intends to sell to other researchers and businesses in the field.

Alibaba Group has cast a vote of confidence in one of its former interns: it will lead a $300 million round of financing for AI training and evaluation startup UniPat AI, based on a valuation of 2.5 billion US dollars. People familiar with the matter said that the financing will soon be completed, and institutions such as Tencent Holdings and the original investor Sequoia China are also participating; negotiations are still ongoing, and the terms of the deal are still likely to change. Since the matter was not made public, people familiar with the matter requested anonymity. UniPat was founded in late 2025 and is designed to test and evaluate real-world scenarios for AI models. Founder Li Kuan worked at Alibaba's Tongyi AI Lab last year, focusing on post-training analysis, data synthesis, and reinforcement learning. His company is focused on generating detailed training and evaluation data, which it intends to sell to other researchers and businesses in the field.