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Yunqi Capital Leads Sikop Technology's B+ Round, Joining Hands with a "Veteran of Smart Manufacturing" to Explore the Future of Intelligent Manufacturing | Yunqi Capital

Today, as intelligent manufacturing accelerates, advanced industrial equipment is not only a key driver of traditional manufacturing upgrades, but also the core "foundation" for cutting-edge technologies like AI and embodied intelligence to take root.

2 Million Units, Top Two Globally: How Chinese Pool Robots Conquered the European and American Markets | Yunqi Capital

Aiper's "Three Trump Cards"

Walking Through the Heat, Gathering Along the Way | Yunqi Capital Quarterly

Yunqi Capital Q2 Good News

Manycore Tech CEO Hang Chen: When Chinese AI Meets the Global Market — Manycore Tech's Overseas Expansion | Yunqi Capital Doers Series

At a time when "going global" has become a core growth strategy for tech companies, challenges like **"overseas launch," "localization,"** and **"sustainable growth"** strike directly at the pain points of business expansion.

Beyond the Code: Do Liberal Arts Majors Still Have a Seat at the Table in the AI Era? | Yunqi Capital Tech Notes

Every way of thinking could connect to the future.

Ren Xinqi, Yue Dian Technology: The toB Agent Generating Over 100 Million RMB in Revenue Is Reshaping Human-Machine Collaboration | Yunqi Capital Doers

When Agents Actually Become Colleagues

Yunqi Capital's Chen Yu: AI Entrepreneurship Isn't About Speed — Direction and Endurance Matter More | Partner Perspectives

Achieve non-consensus breakthroughs with limited resources

MiniMax's Five Major Releases: Highlights at a Glance | Yunqi Capital

intelligence with everyone

"Self-Variable Robotics" Explores a New Paradigm for Embodied Intelligence: From "Building Blocks" to "Native Integration" | Yunqi Capital

Getting AI to Put Down Heidegger's Hammer

MiniMax Open-Sources Ultra Cost-Effective Reasoning Model, With Four Days of Back-to-Back Releases Ahead | Yunqi Capital

Innovation never stops.

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