Chinese AI startup SennoTech raises $293 million in funding, with Alibaba Cloud as the leading investor.

Chinese artificial intelligence startup Shengshu Technology announced on Friday that it has raised 2 billion RMB in a round of financing led by Alibaba Cloud. Shengshu Technology stated that this funding will be used to develop a "universal world model" that simulates human perception and interaction by processing sensory information, taking a step closer to achieving general artificial intelligence in the physical world. The company did not disclose a timetable for the commercial application of this system. Shengshu Technology was founded by Tsinghua University alumni Zhu Jun in early 2023, and launched Vidu in April 2024, becoming the first company in China to release a video generation model. This model was positioned as a competitor to OpenAI's Sora, but OpenAI later discontinued the Sora project. Since then, Shengshu Technology has released several updates to the Vidu model, including the Vidu Q3 model released earlier this year. The company has also expanded into the field of robotics. In December 2025, it open-sourced the Motus model, which aims to control robots by processing multimodal data including video and audio.