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Articles

Can a Robot Cook Wok Hei? A Conversation with Geng Kaiping of Zhigu Tiancheng | Yunqi Attent!on Podcast

How Did a Cooking Robot Become an Overnight Sensation?

Astribot Lands China's First Thousand-Unit Commercial Order, Accelerating AI Robot Deployment in Industry | Yunqi Capital

Partnering with SEER Robotics to Launch a New Phase of AI Robot "Industrial Intelligent Agent" Applications

Yunqi Capital | "Intelligent Square" Closes New Nine-Figure RMB Funding Round, Doubling Down on Model Iteration and Production Line Expansion

Embodied Intelligence, Continuously Evolving

Deep Dive: a16z's Global Top 100 AI Apps — New Patterns and Trends | Yunqi Techπ

It's not just about who's fastest — it's about who can stick around.

DeepRoute's Self-Developed VLA Goes Live, First Batch of Co-Developed Mass-Production Vehicles Coming Soon | Yunqi Capital

Entering the Era of "Defensive Driving"

Getting the Spatial Intelligence Flywheel Spinning: Manycore Tech Drops Major New Release | Yunqi Capital

**One-sentence space redesign? AI's generative capabilities keep pushing the boundaries of what's imaginable.**

The Globalization Path of Embodied Intelligence: A Deep Conversation on Value Creation, Innovation, and Organizational Capability

Hard-hitting, practical insights from the front lines of the industry

From Mortgaging His House to Building the World's Largest Autonomous Fleet: Yu Enyuan's Seven-Year All-In Bet | Yunqi Capital Doers

"Neolix" and Its "Ant Army"

A Conversation with ChatGPT's Product Lead: What They See Amid the GPT-5 Controversy | Yunqi Tech π

Since GPT-5's launch, praise and criticism have flown in equal measure. Faced with unsparing market feedback, ChatGPT product lead Nick Turley recently sat down with Alex Heath, deputy editor at tech publication *The Verge*, for an interview that offered the first systematic reckoning with the backlash.

Yunqi Capital Leads ONERWAY's Series A+ Round, Backing Global Payment Infrastructure Innovation | Yunqi Capital

The company simultaneously completed the acquisition of a European enterprise.

Podcasts

Vol.18 The Non-Sci-Fi Story of Brain-Computer Interfaces: From Top-Tier Hospitals to Home Bedrooms, How Many Steps to Rebuild Prefrontal Order? | A Conversation with Ximing Wang of Kongshan Ci

Vol.18 The Non-Sci-Fi Story of Brain-Computer Interfaces: From Top-Tier Hospitals to Home Bedrooms, How Many Steps to Rebuild Prefrontal Order? | A Conversation with Ximing Wang of Kongshan Ci

Vol.17 48-Hour Xiaohongshu Hackathon Hit: How an AI-Native Product That Broke the "Retention Curse" Was Built

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Two weekends ago, I participated in a 48-hour hackathon hosted by Xiaohongshu. Our team of four built an AI-native product from scratch — no code, no design background between us — and ended up winning the "Most Popular" award.

The product? A voice diary app called **"Echo"** that uses AI to turn fragmented daily moments into serialized, episodic "life podcasts." Think *This American Life*, but starring you.

What surprised me wasn't that we won. It was that people kept using it *after* the demo.

Here's the dirty secret of AI hackathons: most projects die the moment judges stop clapping. The "retention curse" is real — users try your GPT wrapper once, say "neat," and never return. We broke that pattern. Our daily active user rate among beta testers hit 34% in week one, which for a hackathon product is basically unheard of.

How? Three deliberate choices we made against hackathon orthodoxy.

**First, we refused to build a chatbot.**

The default AI product in 2024 is still "talk to a large language model." We explicitly rejected this. Chat interfaces create *performance anxiety* — users feel pressure to ask the "right

Vol.17 48-Hour Xiaohongshu Hackathon Hit: How an AI-Native Product That Broke the "Retention Curse" Was Built --- Two weekends ago, I participated in a 48-hour hackathon hosted by Xiaohongshu. Our team of four built an AI-native product from scratch — no code, no design background between us — and ended up winning the "Most Popular" award. The product? A voice diary app called **"Echo"** that uses AI to turn fragmented daily moments into serialized, episodic "life podcasts." Think *This American Life*, but starring you. What surprised me wasn't that we won. It was that people kept using it *after* the demo. Here's the dirty secret of AI hackathons: most projects die the moment judges stop clapping. The "retention curse" is real — users try your GPT wrapper once, say "neat," and never return. We broke that pattern. Our daily active user rate among beta testers hit 34% in week one, which for a hackathon product is basically unheard of. How? Three deliberate choices we made against hackathon orthodoxy. **First, we refused to build a chatbot.** The default AI product in 2024 is still "talk to a large language model." We explicitly rejected this. Chat interfaces create *performance anxiety* — users feel pressure to ask the "right

Vol.16 Tsinghua Entrepreneur-Scientist Huazhe Xu: From Intelligent "Hatching" to Home Embodiment, Stubbornly Chasing Originality in the AI Wave

Vol.16 Tsinghua Entrepreneur-Scientist Huazhe Xu: From Intelligent "Hatching" to Home Embodiment, Stubbornly Chasing Originality in the AI Wave

Vol.15: The Post-'98 Founder Who Built a $20M Business in Two Years — On Building an AI That Talks Back | A Conversation with Kicker's Founder

Vol.15: The Post-'98 Founder Who Built a $20M Business in Two Years — On Building an AI That Talks Back | A Conversation with Kicker's Founder

Vol.14 OpenClaw Is Just the Beginning: Are Agents Reinventing the Company? | A Conversation with Happycapy's Founder

Vol.14 OpenClaw Is Just the Beginning: Are Agents Reinventing the Company? | A Conversation with Happycapy's Founder

Vol. 13 The Smarter AI Social Gets, the More Human We Become Like NPCs? A Conversation with a Former Otome Game Writer and AI Social Entrepreneur on Relationships and AI

Vol. 13 The Smarter AI Social Gets, the More Human We Become Like NPCs? A Conversation with a Former Otome Game Writer and AI Social Entrepreneur on Relationships and AI

Vol.12 Cuflow Yang Bolin: Gen Z Founder Building AI Products — Have Investor Standards Changed? | Y Transformers

Vol.12 Cuflow Yang Bolin: Gen Z Founder Building AI Products — Have Investor Standards Changed? | Y Transformers

Vol.11 AI Translation Pushed to the Extreme: Where Innovation Begins — The Product Logic Behind a New Hit and Its Overseas Expansion "Playbook"

Vol.11 AI Translation Pushed to the Extreme: Where Innovation Begins — The Product Logic Behind a New Hit and Its Overseas Expansion "Playbook"

Vol.10: Do Robot Woks Make Pre-Made Meals? A Conversation with Geng Kaiping of ZhiGu TianChu

Vol.10: Do Robot Woks Make Pre-Made Meals? A Conversation with Geng Kaiping of ZhiGu TianChu

Vol.09 How Should Search Engines Work in the Agent Era? A Conversation with Yu Chen and Zhiheng Du on AI "New Infrastructure"

Vol.09 How Should Search Engines Work in the Agent Era? A Conversation with Yu Chen and Zhiheng Du on AI "New Infrastructure"