What XVERSE does

XVERSE Technology Inc. (元象XVERSE) is a Shenzhen-based artificial intelligence and 3D technology company founded in early 2021 by Forrest Yao, a former Tencent Vice President who established Tencent AI Lab and Tencent Robotics Lab. The company operates as a privately-held unicorn with two integrated technology stacks: a proprietary large language model family (XVERSE-LLM, including a 65B-parameter base model trained on a 2.6T token corpus across 40+ languages, a 256K-context variant that was the world's first open-source model at that length, and a Mixture-of-Experts variant) and a real-time 3D content platform (XVERSE 3D) built on Edge-Cloud Collaborative Rendering, with disclosed capacity for 1 million concurrent online users at real-time 4K resolution, 8K 6DOF rendering on Apple Vision Pro over areas up to 100K square meters, and 3D Gaussian Splatting reconstruction. Backers include Tencent, GGV Capital, 5Y Capital, Hillhouse Capital, Sequoia Capital, Temasek, and CPE, with approximately $160 million raised across a 2021 Series 1 ($40 million) and a 2022 Series 2 ($120 million).

The company sells into two distinct customer segments through different go-to-market motions. Enterprise customers access professional one-stop services for virtual house viewing (real estate), tourist assistance (travel), and marketing promotion (brands), with named logos including Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Mars, Adidas, CCTV, and Tencent; these engagements are sold via direct enterprise sales on a quote basis. Individual consumers access Mindtopia (an immersive VR platform distributed on Meta Quest App Lab), Saylo (an AI-driven interactive reading app at sayloai.com), and Metaverse Birthday Party experiences, with AI products (XVERSE-LLM, AI Studio) freely accessible at chat.xverse.cn following a freemium model. The company employs 51-100 staff with 75% in R&D, drawing talent from Tencent, Baidu, IBM, and McKinsey, and reports no publicly disclosed revenue, pricing tiers, or revenue mix.

The business model is therefore a hybrid of (i) capital-intensive proprietary AI infrastructure development funded by venture capital, (ii) project-based enterprise services in three verticals, and (iii) freemium consumer distribution across VR and web channels, with no public disclosure of paid conversion rates, contract values, or revenue concentration.

Name

XVERSE

Legal name

XVERSE Technology Inc.

Website

https://xverse.cn

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

XVERSE is a Shenzhen-based AI and 3D technology company developing proprietary large language models (up to 65B parameters) and a real-time 3D content platform. It serves enterprise customers in real estate, tourism, and brand marketing alongside individual consumers via VR and AI-driven applications.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI-powered 3D Content Generation Platform

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132), Computer Systems Design Services (541512)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro primary industry

AI Application Enablement Platforms (Copilot/Agent Frameworks, SDKs) (HDAEANAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

XR/AR/VR/MR Development Frameworks & Toolchains (MPAFAFAF), Game Engines (General-Purpose & Real-Time 3D) (MPAFAFAA), VR/XR Hardware & Accessories (Headsets, Controllers, Trackers, Haptics) (MPAFAGAG)

Keywords

• Large language models
• 3D content generation
• AI metaverse platform
• Immersive VR experiences
• Edge-cloud rendering

Headquarters

HQ city

Shenzhen

HQ country

China

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. AI Products (LLM, AI Studio): XVERSE offers AI products including XVERSE LLM and AI Studio through its web platform. Products are available with free access (freemium model) with additional paid tiers likely for higher usage. The company targets both enterprise customers with professional one-stop services and individual consumers.
2. 3D Platform Services (Enterprise): Enterprise customers receive professional one-stop services including virtual house viewing, tourist assistance, and marketing promotion solutions. Revenue likely derived from enterprise contracts and professional services.
3. Consumer 3D/VR Products: Consumer-facing products including Mindtopia (VR platform for Quest), Saylo (immersive AI interactive reading), and Metaverse Birthday Party experiences. Available through platforms including Mindtopia VR app and web-based applications.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

XVERSE (元象XVERSE) develops an AI-powered platform that combines a proprietary large language model family (XVERSE-LLM, including 65B, 256K-context Long, and MoE variants) with an Edge-Cloud Collaborative 3D rendering platform (XVERSE 3D) to enable one-stop generation and display of 3D content. It sells both consumer products (Saylo AI interactive reading, Mindtopia VR for Quest, Metaverse Birthday Party) directly to individuals and professional enterprise services (virtual house viewing, tourist assistance, marketing promotion) to brands and media companies.

Product overview

XVERSE is an AI-powered platform offering a portfolio of products centered on two core domains: large language models (XVERSE LLM family) and 3D content generation/consumption (XVERSE 3D platform). The XVERSE LLM suite includes base model variants (XVERSE-65B, XVERSE-Long, XVERSE-MoE) accessible via AI Studio with supporting infrastructure for data processing and GPU-based inference. Consumer products include Saylo (AI interactive reading), Mindtopia (VR experiences), and Metaverse Birthday Party (VR celebrations). The XVERSE 3D platform provides enterprise solutions like virtual house viewing, tourist assistance, and marketing promotion tools, along with the Mindtopia VR platform for end users. All offerings are underpinned by proprietary AI capabilities and 3D rendering technologies.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• XVERSE LLM: AI large language model with complex reasoning and multilingual comprehension capabilities, featuring models including XVERSE-65B, XVERSE-Long, and XVERSE-MoE supporting 40+ languages with up to 16K context length.
• Saylo
• Mindtopia
• Metaverse Birthday Party
• XVERSE 3D
• XVERSE AI Studio

Quantifiable outcome

• XVERSE 3D supports 2000K co-server users and 1M online users simultaneously
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability8 records

Feature7 records

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Unity Software: Real-time 3D engine and platform used for game, industrial, and spatial computing content. Comparable to XVERSE 3D's Edge-Cloud Collaborative Rendering stack and its UE5-based 3DGS pipeline as foundational infrastructure for 3D content creation and distribution.
• Epic Games (Unreal Engine): Unreal Engine is the industry-standard real-time 3D engine — XVERSE's 3DGS Local Training Plugin explicitly targets UE5 editing. Comparable as the platform layer for high-fidelity, real-time 3D content that XVERSE's enterprise and Vision Pro experiences are built on top of.
• Baidu: Operates ERNIE Bot and a broad AI/cloud platform serving both consumers and enterprise in China. Overlaps with XVERSE on Chinese LLM, AI Studio-style tooling, and enterprise AI services, but at vastly larger scale and as part of a search/cloud portfolio rather than an independent startup.
• Tencent (Hunyuan): Tencent's Hunyuan LLM and 3D/metaverse initiatives (including its earlier investment in XVERSE) cover both AI and 3D content. Comparable in product surface area — LLMs, 3D rendering, gaming/metaverse — but embedded in a much larger social, gaming, and cloud portfolio.
• Alibaba (Qwen / Tongyi): Develops the Qwen family of open-source LLMs and cloud AI services through Alibaba Cloud. Directly competes with XVERSE-LLM in the open-source Chinese LLM race and offers comparable AI Studio / model-serving infrastructure, but as part of Alibaba's hyperscale cloud business.

Emerging players

• Niantic: Developer of AR/spatial computing platforms (Niantic Studio, Lightship) and consumer AR games. Comparable to XVERSE's Apple Vision Pro and Quest efforts around 6DOF, real-world-scale spatial experiences and 3D content tooling, though with an AR-mapping emphasis rather than LLM integration.
• Roblox: User-generated 3D content platform with AI-assisted creation tools and a massive concurrent-user infrastructure. Comparable to XVERSE's stated mission of 3D user-generated content and its scale targets (millions of concurrent users with real-time 4K rendering), though focused on a younger, gaming-centric audience.

Direct peers

• DeepSeek: Hangzhou-based Chinese AI lab shipping open-source LLMs (DeepSeek-V2/V3, MoE) with strong efficiency focus. Comparable to XVERSE-LLM and XVERSE-MoE on open-source strategy, Mixture-of-Experts architecture, and emphasis on training/inference cost efficiency.
• Moonshot AI: Chinese AI startup behind the Kimi chatbot and a 200K+ context long-text LLM. Closely comparable in the race for long-context open/closed LLMs, Chinese unicorn status, and developer-focused GTM that XVERSE's LLM and AI Studio directly compete against.
• Zhipu AI: Beijing-based Chinese AI lab developing its own GLM family of large language models, including long-context and multimodal variants. Most direct comparable in terms of independent Chinese foundation-model positioning, open-source strategy, and enterprise/government-backed capital base.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors7 records

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M&A

Investments

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