Light Years Beyond

AI startup aiming to build a Chinese OpenAI-style large language model

Founders

Wang Huiwen (China · ♂) — A co-founder of food-delivery giant Meituan who had stepped back from the company, he launched Light Years Beyond in early 2023 with $50M of his own money to build China's answer to OpenAI; it was acquired by Meituan months later.

Date	Round	Amount
Jun 2023	Acquired by Meituan Chinese tech giant Meituan acquired AI startup Light Years Beyond for about 234M dollars.	$234M

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