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14 Tips on Mexico
Waiting for the wind in Mexico.
Huayi Quantum Secures Over 100 Million Yuan in Pre-A Round to Accelerate Development of Novel Ion-Trap Quantum Computer
Committed to achieving sustained, rapid growth in qubit scale.
Action Is the Simplest Method | 5Y News Monthly
The big news from last month.
Vertilite closes new funding round worth hundreds of millions of RMB, solidifying its position in the top tier of VCSEL laser chip makers globally
Beyond consumer electronics and automotive electronics, the company is now pushing further into the high-end optical communications chip sector.
AI Does the Labor, Humans Do the Creating | Happy May Day
Salute to the Workers
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Casual Chat on Indonesia: When Chinese Entrepreneurs Unlock a New Map | 5Y Capital Tavern Vol. 16 [Podcast]
The New Age of Chinese Voyaging.
AI Itinerary Planning, Trip Booking... How Vtrip Redefines AI-Native Travel Products | Gaorong Ventures --- When ChatGPT first launched in late 2022, it sparked immediate excitement across the travel industry. Travel is a classic information-asymmetry business — fragmented supply chains, complex decision-making, and high service costs. The industry had long dreamed of a "travel super assistant," and large language models finally seemed to make it possible. But two years later, the reality has been underwhelming. Most so-called "AI travel" products remain stuck at the chatbot level: they can answer questions and draft itineraries, but can't actually complete bookings. The gap between "generating a plan" and "executing a trip" remains vast. Vtrip (视旅科技), a startup founded in 2021, is taking a different approach. Rather than bolting AI onto existing travel infrastructure, it's rebuilding the entire travel product from the ground up with AI at its core. The company recently closed a new funding round led by Gaorong Ventures, with participation from existing investors. We spoke with Vtrip's founding team about what "AI-native travel" actually means in practice. ## From "AI-Assisted" to "AI-Native" The travel industry's first
Travel LLMs are putting this generation's young travelers in a league of their own.
May 10 in Shanghai — Linear Capital and Linkloud are hosting a conversation on AI/SaaS going global. Sign-ups are open.
Linear Capital is an early-stage investment firm focused on the "frontier technology + industry" direction. That means frontier technologies — represented by data intelligence, digital new infrastructure, next-generation robotics, and new technological transformations in traditional sectors (such as biomedicine, materials, energy, and more) — applied across vertical industries to dramatically improve industrial efficiency, empower them to solve pain-point problems, and complete industrial upgrading, realizing value through substantial increases in industrial value.
Zhilin Yang: Innovation, Long-Term Thinking, First Principles
I'll see you on the other side of the moon.
At ICRA 2024, Linear Capital and several of its portfolio robotics teams from China, Germany, and Switzerland look forward to meeting you!
ICRA, the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, is the largest and most influential academic conference in robotics. From May 13 to May 17, 2024, ICRA 2024 will be held in Yokohama, Japan. Linear Capital will attend with its portfolio companies Horizon Robotics, Agile Robots, and F