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Articles

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.

MiniMax Agent Gets Another Upgrade: $150K Global Challenge | Yunqi Capital

A Journey of Discovery That Any of Us Can "Get On Board"

Embodied Intelligence: The Future Is Here — Three Hours of Industry Resonance and Global Perspective | Yunqi Capital x SEE Fund

Conversations on Innovation, Venture Capital, and Creation

Livestream Registration | Yunqi Capital x SEE Fund: World Robot Congress Themed Event — See You Tomorrow

On August 8, the **2025 World Robot Conference (WRC)** opened in Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area. As one of the largest and most influential events in the global robotics sector, this year's WRC is themed "Making Robots Smarter, Making Embodied Intelligence More Intelligent," bringing together **over 1,500 exhibits from more than 200 domestic and international robotics companies**, including 100 new products making their debut.

Opening Today: A Complete Guide to Yunqi Capital's Embodied Intelligence Portfolio | Yunqi Capital x World Robot Conference

A User-Friendly Guide to Robot "Face Blindness"

Livestream Countdown | Yunqi Capital x SEE Fund: World Robot Congress Special Event — See You in 2 Days

From August 8 to 12, the **2025 World Robot Conference (WRC)** will be held at Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area. As one of the largest and most influential events in the global robotics sector, this year's WRC will take "Making Robots Smarter, Making Embodied Intelligence More Intelligent" as its theme, bringing together **over 1,500 exhibits from more than 200 domestic and international robotics companies**, including 100 new products that will make their debut.

Yunqi Capital | Green Voltis Closes New Funding Round: How AI-Native Technology Drives the Energy Transition

The New Narrative of AI + Energy

Coming Soon | Yunqi Capital X SEE Fund: World Robot Conference Special Event — You're Invited

Embodied Intelligence: The Future Is Already Here

Talking Shop in a Bubble: How We Accidentally Threw a "Stand-Up Comedy" Show | Attent!on AI Open Source Night

Unfiltered Thoughts on AI Open Source from the Front Lines

Yunqi Capital | "Creao AI" Closes Two Consecutive Rounds of Tens of Millions of Dollars in Funding, with Yunqi Capital as Sole Angel Round Investor

Agentic OS Unlocks a New Paradigm for Agent Collaboration

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"