On March 25, 2026, on the eve of the 130th anniversary of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Du Xiaoman signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Xi'an Jiaotong University. The two parties will integrate the advantages of industrial practice and academic research, and cooperate in depth in jointly building scientific research platforms, joint talent training, and promoting the transformation of technological achievements, so as to promote the application of cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology in the financial field. Zhang Liqun, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and president of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Chen Juan, deputy dean of the Research Institute of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Liang Li, secretary of the Party Committee of the Department of Telecommunications of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Zhu Guang, CEO of Du Xiaoman, and Zhang Wenbin, CTO of Du Xiaoman, attended the signing ceremony.
It is worth noting that the two parties will launch strategic cooperation in 2021 to establish the "Xi'an Jiaotong University-Du Xiaoman Artificial Intelligence Joint Research Center". The high-performance big data analysis architecture jointly built by the two parties has been fully applied in various data analysis scenarios in Duxiaoman's business, shortening the time spent on business data analysis by an average of 40%, and significantly improving the efficiency of business insights and decision-making response speed. In terms of data asset operations, data storage costs have been optimized by more than 15%, greatly improving resource utilization efficiency while ensuring stability.
In the second phase of the strategic cooperation project launched this time, Du Xiaoman will work with the Department of Telecommunications and the School of Artificial Intelligence of Xi'an Jiaotong University to carry out joint research around the self-evolution of agents, the application of multi-modal large models in small and micro finance, AI-native financial intelligent computing bases, big data multi-variable learning, etc., to systematically solve the key issues facing AI-native finance from the data, model to agent levels, and jointly explore the new paradigm of AI-empowered finance in the next stage.
Zhang Liqun, President of Xi'an Jiaotong University, said: "Xi'an Jiaotong University has always adhered to the educational orientation of 'rooting in the west, serving the country, and being world-class'. It has cultivated a group of top talents, established a number of advantageous disciplines such as power engineering, engineering thermophysics, and electrical engineering, and created a human-machine hybrid enhanced intelligence It is a national key laboratory and other major national scientific research platforms, and has taken the lead in building high-level open education platforms such as the China-Shanghai Cooperation Organization Higher Education Cooperation Center. In the field of artificial intelligence, the school has further promoted the "Artificial Intelligence Pilot Plan" and served as the Ministry of Education's "101 Plan" for Artificial Intelligence. As one of the leading units in the construction of core courses, Du Xiaoman continues to lead the reform of the artificial intelligence talent training system and the improvement of teaching quality. Finance is one of the most valuable implementation scenarios of artificial intelligence technology. Du Xiaoman, as a leading financial technology company in China, has profound scientific research experience in the field of artificial intelligence with Xi'an Jiaotong University. The strength and talent pool are highly consistent. We hope that both parties will take this signing as a new starting point to actively explore the innovative model of 'jointly asking questions, jointly answering questions, and jointly benefiting from each other', promoting the school's scientific research results to move out of the laboratory and into real applications, and contribute to the integrated development of artificial intelligence and the financial industry."
Du Xiaoman CEO Zhu Guang said: "Xi'an Jiaotong University has always been at the forefront of artificial intelligence technology exploration and has achieved breakthrough results in basic research on artificial intelligence. Du Xiaoman has advantages in scenarios, data and engineering capabilities in artificial intelligence applications. Based on the significant progress achieved in the first phase of cooperation, the two parties will further increase resource investment and depth of cooperation, promote the transformation of technological achievements, and jointly explore the cutting-edge applications of AI in the financial field."
Du Xiaoman continues to explore the application of artificial intelligence in the financial field. In May 2023, Du Xiaoman open sourced "Xuanyuan", China's first 100-billion-level large-scale financial model; in 2024, it began to explore the application of large-scale reasoning models in risk control; in 2025, it further launched Xuanyuan FinX1 with deep reasoning capabilities, and its large-scale model matrix has been widely used in core business scenarios such as risk control and customer service in financial institutions. Within the company, Du Xiaoman has deployed a large model as a credit review Copilot. By learning the judgment logic of excellent credit reviewers, AI helps front-line employees quickly complete credit review judgments, shortening the review time from 10 minutes to 30 seconds, and reducing credit default risks by more than 50%.
In recent years, Du Xiaoman has continued to increase investment in Xi'an, with the cumulative investment amount exceeding 1.4 billion yuan. In order to better attract local talents, Xiaoman set up a research and development center in Xi'an last year, and currently more than 150 engineers have joined.
