Ten Notable AI + Tech Industry Developments to Watch | "Cloud Brief · Business Bulletin Board, Nov–Dec 2023"

Every incremental advance in AI and industrial innovation is pushing productivity and daily life to new heights.

In "Business Chalkboard," we track the latest AI+ developments, product launches, and strategic partnerships from Yunqi Capital portfolio companies. We look forward to witnessing each step forward with you.

If you'd like to connect or collaborate with any of these companies, feel free to reach out via direct message.

"AI+"

01 Kujiale Unveils AI Product Matrix, PaaS Ecosystem Upgraded

Angel round lead investor

#AIGC+Design #PaaS

At the 2023 "Ku+" All-Space Digital Summit held in Guangzhou, Kujiale announced its AI product matrix: leveraging AIGC to power cloud-based design, it launched an AI spatial vision large model that has already helped clients generate 4.6 billion renderings. Additionally, Kujiale fully activated its PaaS strategy, with developer numbers up 250% and applications launched up 600%.

02 IceKredit Partners with Zhongnong Rongxin, AI Large Model Lands in Agriculture

Yunqi Capital angel portfolio

#LLM #Finance #Agriculture

IceKredit's self-developed large model product Origin One has already been deployed in intelligent customer service, smart office operations, and financial document processing. In this partnership with Zhongnong Rongxin, AI large model technology is being applied to the "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers" sector — comprehensively organizing, integrating, and analyzing agriculture-related data to unlock rural asset value and leverage data resources in support of agricultural services. The collaboration will deliver efficient, intelligent solutions across agricultural data analysis, agricultural financial services, agricultural supply chain management, and agricultural socialized services, empowering rural revitalization. Separately, IceKredit also participated in drafting the important industry standard Guidelines for the Application of Public Data in Enterprise Credit Reporting, which was formally released recently.

"New Product Launches"

03 DeepRoute.ai MapFree HD Map-Free Autonomous Driving Solution Upgraded

Yunqi Capital angel round lead investor

#FSD #AutonomousDriving

MapFree is China's first intelligent driving solution that doesn't rely on HD maps. With this upgrade, real-time perception capabilities have been further enhanced — it can now identify traffic lights, construction zones, and slow-moving or temporarily stopped vehicles in a timely, accurate, and stable manner, while clearly distinguishing between motor vehicle and non-motor vehicle lanes. Ride comfort and travel efficiency have also improved noticeably compared to the "V1" version. MapFree has begun road testing in Guangzhou.

04 XTransfer International Services Go Live Globally

Yunqi Capital angel round lead investor

#GlobalExpansion #CrossBorderPayments

XTransfer's international services are now live globally, supporting businesses in 200+ countries and regions with account opening, payments, collections, and foreign exchange functions. The service is projected to save 95% on remittance fees and 20% on FX costs, significantly improving operating capital efficiency for global trading enterprises.

05 JD.com Industrial Releases New Supply Chain Digitalization Solution "Taipu"

Yunqi Capital Series B portfolio

#DigitalSupplyChain #IndustrialInternet

Built on IPNP (Industrial Performance Neural Project) industrial collaboration capabilities, Taipu serves two typical industrial procurement scenarios — indirect materials and production materials — offering design and consulting, digital procurement, and other service capabilities. It achieves convergence of information flow, commercial flow, logistics, and capital flow, efficiently linking suppliers and customers, and precisely matching the supply chain digital transformation needs of industrial enterprises across different industries, scales, and stages of digital maturity.

06 Zilliz Cloud Officially Launches on Microsoft Azure

Yunqi Capital first round lead investor

#VectorDatabase

Zilliz Cloud is now officially available on Microsoft Azure (US East region), achieving full coverage of major global cloud platforms including AWS, GCP, and Alibaba Cloud. The platform has also undergone a major upgrade with numerous new features to enhance developers' data management and query capabilities.

07 Xingji Announces Launch of Place-and-Route Tool AmazeSys

Yunqi Capital angel portfolio

#SemiconductorDesign #PlaceAndRoute

AmazeSys is Xingji's fully self-developed next-generation digital chip physical design implementation tool. It includes complete physical implementation modules spanning macro placement planning, power planning, placement, clock tree synthesis, routing, and optimization. It supports ultra-large-scale designs at advanced process nodes and can service the complete back-end design flow from Netlist to GDS, delivering from design to manufacturing.

"Strategic Partnerships"

08 Triastek and Siemens Sign Deepened Strategic Agreement

Yunqi Capital A+ round portfolio

#AdvancedManufacturing #3DPrintedPharmaceuticals

This marks the two parties' renewed collaboration following their strategic partnership in March 2022. They will continue working toward the goal of "pharmaceutical industry digitalization," jointly developing world-leading digital pharmaceutical technologies and production solutions. Triastek is dedicated to developing the world's first melt extrusion deposition 3D printing process for drug R&D and production equipment, while Siemens provides globally advanced automation and digitalization technology solutions and high-stability products.

09 RisingWave Labs Becomes Confluent Official Partner

Yunqi Capital seed round lead investor

#OpenSource #Database

Confluent is the fully managed cloud-native service for Apache Kafka, currently serving 2,500+ paying customers including nearly 150 Fortune 500 companies. Following RisingWave Cloud becoming an official Confluent partner, the two will collaborate to help customers optimize data pipelines, build event-driven applications, and enhance data integration capabilities.

10 Dafang Enters Singapore Market, Hosts Singapore Construction Management Delegation

Yunqi Capital Pre-A round lead investor

#Robotics #GlobalExpansion #Construction

Dafang robots currently have multiple projects in Singapore spanning parking garages and public housing, providing technical solutions. Singapore government and construction agencies have expressed recognition of Dafang's forward-looking applications, noting that these technologies could lead future construction innovation. Recently, representatives from Singapore's construction management authorities, related construction enterprises, and material suppliers visited Dafang to observe construction site operations.