14.9 Grams of Obsession and Six "Anti-Consensus" Views
About four months ago, AI Nao first heard of Moonix — right when the company had just launched its new product in Silicon Valley.
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What model is the world?
**$1.5B | Club Deal | Funding Round | FOMO**
100 Hardware Fanatics, 48 Hours, Something Electric Happened in Zhangjiang | Someone's Always Out There Doing Something New
There's always someone out there doing something genuinely new: it can be abstract, but it can't be mediocre.
Arise, Agents Who Refuse to Be Slaves
In 2026, the AI industry is suffused with a sense of fracture.
AI Matchmaker: A Conversation with Zeng Xinxun, Founder of Liangpei, on AI-Powered Dating
**Dating & Marriage | AI Search | 1-on-1 Lock-in | Context Matching**
Some Observe Parallel Worlds, Others Write the User Manual for All Life — 6 Projects from AI's "Navigation Night" --- The metaphor of "Navigation Night" (闹航海夜) evokes a chaotic, exploratory atmosphere — like sailors venturing into uncharted waters under cover of darkness, when the old maps no longer apply. In China's AI scene, this captures the current moment: researchers and founders pushing in wildly divergent directions, some chasing theoretical frontiers, others building practical infrastructure for biological discovery. Here are six projects that illustrate the breadth of this expedition.
The only event during WAIC with a dress code — blue and white. Fortunately, everyone who showed up followed it.
The Hottest Job in Silicon Valley Is Now in China: Grueling, Painful, and Always Putting Out Fires
**FDE | AI Implementation | Three Case Studies | Eight-Figure RMB Deals**
WAIC Special: Blue & White Sailor Club | AI Nautical Night
Every year, WAIC has the same problem: the daytime schedule is packed with back-to-back sessions and speeches,
A Conversation with HiDream.ai's Tao Mei: Big Tech Is a Machine Gun, Startups Only Have One Magazine
**Half a Step Ahead | Unconverged Problems | Compounding Systems | One Magazine**
YouMind: Yu Bo's 9 Reflections on Entrepreneurship — Growing Disenchanted, Growing Contrarian
When I met Yubo last May, he had just finished meeting with the first investor who'd come to Hangzhou to talk with him. YouMind 0.3 had just launched, and the entire world was at a fever pitch over Manus's Agent narrative. Without a dedicated office, we sat chatting in a pavilion at an outdoor garden in Hangzhou (and got eaten alive by mosquitoes). He carried a strained optimism, working hard to keep his spirits up. [In Conversation with YouMind Founder Yubo: The Man Challenging Douyin]