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In 2004, an Embodied AI CEO Goes Full-Stack Open Source; Xiaomi and Galbot Bet Tens of Millions of Dollars
The Appeal of an All-Gen Z Founding Team
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Monolith Raises $488 Million in New Funding
Assets under management exceed 10 billion RMB.
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Here are 14 startups that haven't been covered yet.
Always celebrate the risk-takers.
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Another VC Rebrands with a New Name
The twentieth year of local iteration.
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Managing $7 billion in annual ad spend, the person who understands global traffic better than anyone just built an AI agent
What happens when we treat data as a living organism?
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Exclusive | LiblibAI Raises $130 Million, Led by Hongshan and CMC
Go big or go home.
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How Does an Infra Company Bring AI into the Physical World?
The integration of machine cognition and action.
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A Conversation with iMile's Cathy Huang: Winning at Cross-Border Logistics Through Systems | Dark Tide World View
From the Middle East to the World
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Hongshan's Seed Fund Backs New Startup Building an AI-Powered LinkedIn
Can AI connect people with one another?
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A Conversation with Thailand's First Unicorn Founder: From Orphan to $3 Billion CEO --- When Kavin Bhumikittikul was six years old, he watched his mother walk out the door and never come back. His father, a gambling addict, had accumulated crushing debts. The family shattered. Kavin and his siblings were sent to separate orphanages across Bangkok. Forty years later, he is the founder and CEO of Agoda, the online travel platform valued at roughly $3 billion — Thailand's first unicorn, and one of Southeast Asia's most consequential tech companies. I met Kavin at Agoda's Bangkok headquarters, a sleek glass tower overlooking the Chao Phraya River. He arrived without an entourage, wearing a company polo shirt and carrying his own laptop bag. The contrast between his current stature and his origins is almost too stark to process. Yet he speaks about both with the same even, analytical tone — as if describing data points in a business case rather than his own life. --- **"I learned to sell before I learned to read properly"** Kavin's earliest memory of commerce is selling candy to other children at his orphanage, age seven. He would buy bulk packs with his meager allowance
The fiercer the storm, the more powerful the lightning.
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