SINGAPORE, Oct. 27, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Sound Group Inc. (“Sound Group” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: SOGP), a world AI-powered audio firm, as we speak introduced that one in every of its subsidiaries has formally donated to set up the “HKUST(GZ) Information Hub – LIZHI Innovation Talent Scholarship” (the “LIZHI Innovation Talent Scholarship”) at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou).
The scholarship will present recipients with alternatives to take part in AI and information science–associated internships and innovation tasks. Through this initiative, Sound Group goals to construct a co-creation platform between enterprises and excellent younger abilities, selling deeper integration between trade, academia, and analysis.
Hosted by the HKUST(GZ) Information Hub, the collaboration and LIZHI Innovation Talent Scholarship is devoted to recognizing excellent HKUST(GZ) college students within the fields of AI and information science, encouraging younger students to discover the frontiers of those applied sciences and advance industrial functions. This aligns with Sound Group’s AI enterprise technique and displays the corporate’s long-term dedication to supporting scientific analysis and cultivating future expertise for AI innovation. Through this donation, Sound Group will additional join cutting-edge educational analysis with the sensible software of AI merchandise and applied sciences, driving innovation in areas similar to voice AI merchandise, clever audio processing, data-driven companies, and giant audio fashions.
Mr. Jinnan (Marco) Lai, Founder, CEO and Chairman of Sound Group, mentioned, “Innovation and expertise are the 2 core driving forces behind AI improvement. We are honored to collaborate with HKUST(GZ), a prestigious educational establishment famend for its international imaginative and prescient and analysis excellence, to set up an innovation-oriented expertise improvement mechanism.
The LIZHI Innovation Talent Scholarship not solely displays Sound Group’s steady dedication to fulfilling its company social accountability, but in addition represents our confidence and long-term funding within the subsequent era of AI expertise. Meanwhile, this collaboration will present Sound Group with robust expertise and know-how assist for the continual enlargement of our AI enterprise, and additional drive innovation and software within the AI voice subject to obtain our international development goals.”
With years of amassed expertise within the audio subject, Sound Group has constructed a robust basis for the event of AI know-how. The firm has established full-stack voice AI know-how capabilities, together with core competencies in automated speech recognition (ASR), pure language understanding (NLU), speech synthesis (TTS), and clever interplay, whereas constantly launching AI-native merchandise. Through swift validation and steady iteration, Sound Group is dedicated to refining and optimizing its know-how and merchandise to create a sturdy development flywheel for sustained enlargement.
Launching the LIZHI Innovation Talent Scholarship at HKUST(GZ) marks a big step for Sound Group within the subject of training and technological innovation in AI and information science. Looking forward, the corporate will proceed to embrace an innovation-driven, voice-powered improvement philosophy, fostering and accelerating the mixing of AI know-how throughout the audio sector. By advancing know-how, merchandise, and expertise improvement in parallel, Sound Group goals to additional unlock the expansion potential of its AI enterprise and contribute to the sustainable improvement of the digital financial system.
About Sound Group Inc.
Sound Group Inc. is a world audio-centric social and leisure firm pushed by a transparent mission and imaginative and prescient: constructing the world’s largest audio platform to higher join and talk. The Company is devoted to shaping a future the place audio not solely bridges gaps but in addition amplifies human connection by means of the facility of sound. Sound Group Inc. has been listed on Nasdaq since January 2020.
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