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Alibaba-backed AI Speech moves forward with Star Market listing plan, aiming to raise US$1.5 billion in Shanghai IPO
- AI Speech, a speech recognition and AI chip company, enters into the Q&A portion of the Shanghai bourse listing application it filed in July
- The company is in the early stage of a vetting process that typically takes over a year
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AI Speech, an Alibaba-backed company involved in speech recognition and AI chip design, has moved a step forward in its quest for a public listing on Shanghai’s Star Market.
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The Jiangsu province-based company began completing a Q&A from the Shanghai Stock Exchange on Wednesday, representing the second step in a vetting process that normally takes well over a year.
The company aims to raise 10.3 billion yuan (US$1.5 billion) from an eventual initial public offering (IPO), it said in a filing submitted in July. Its target is not far from the biggest IPO on the Star board this year; chipmaker Hygon Information Tech raised US$1.6 billion earlier this month.
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AI Speech plans to issue new shares equivalent to no less than 10 per cent of its enlarged issued share capital, according to a heavily redacted draft prospectus. Other terms of the proposed offering are not available. The company said it would invest the net proceeds from the listing in internet-of-things (IoT) technology and its dialogue user interface (DUI), its core technology.
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