Lingxin Intelligence, legally Beijing Lingxin Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., is a Chinese conversational-AI company founded by Huang Minlie, an associate professor at Tsinghua University's Department of Computer Science and Technology, with a team drawn from Tsinghua, Carnegie Mellon University, and Google. It builds controllable, configurable, hyper-anthropomorphic large models, and its products include the AI Utopia character-creation platform launched in December 2022, the Emohaa emotional-support model, and the Echo empathy model co-developed with Tsinghua's CoAI laboratory.
Zhipu AI participated in its 2021 angel round and its February 2023 Pre-A round led by SEE Fund, and in September 2023 36Kr reported that Zhipu AI had fully acquired the company. The Lingxin brand continued after the acquisition, shipping the CharacterGLM Pro model in June 2024 and keeping the AI Utopia site operating under the Beijing Lingxin legal name.
