On November 5, Sand.ai announced the completion of the $200 million A+ round of financing. According to Sand.ai, this is the third round of financing completed by the company in 2026. The cumulative amount of financing within 10 months reached 300 million US dollars. After this round of financing, it officially joined the ranks of unicorns. This round of financing was co-led by Cornerstone Capital and Wangsu Technology; institutions such as Times Capital, Panlin Capital, and Oriental Securities Capital participated; Tianchuang Capital participated strategically with Shandong Railway Investment and Shandong Railway Fund; state-owned institutions such as Pudong Venture Capital and Shanghai Guofang joined; and old shareholders such as Jingwei Venture Capital, Huaye Tiancheng, and Zhongke Chuangxing continued to raise their investment. Sand.ai said that this round of financing will mainly be used for basic video model research and development, training and inference infrastructure construction, product iteration, and global market expansion. The official version of MAGi-2, the company's next-generation MoE architecture video generation basic model with a larger parameter scale, will be released soon.

Zhitongcaijing · 1d ago
On November 5, Sand.ai announced the completion of the $200 million A+ round of financing. According to Sand.ai, this is the third round of financing completed by the company in 2026. The cumulative amount of financing within 10 months reached 300 million US dollars. After this round of financing, it officially joined the ranks of unicorns. This round of financing was co-led by Cornerstone Capital and Wangsu Technology; institutions such as Times Capital, Panlin Capital, and Oriental Securities Capital participated; Tianchuang Capital participated strategically with Shandong Railway Investment and Shandong Railway Fund; state-owned institutions such as Pudong Venture Capital and Shanghai Guofang joined; and old shareholders such as Jingwei Venture Capital, Huaye Tiancheng, and Zhongke Chuangxing continued to raise their investment. Sand.ai said that this round of financing will mainly be used for basic video model research and development, training and inference infrastructure construction, product iteration, and global market expansion. The official version of MAGi-2, the company's next-generation MoE architecture video generation basic model with a larger parameter scale, will be released soon.