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Articles

Noematrix, an embodied intelligence company, has completed a Pre-A++ funding round of several hundred million RMB, with Yunqi Capital participating | Yunqi Capital

Advancing the Large-Scale Commercial Deployment of Embodied AI

Yunqi Capital | Astribot Raises Hundreds of Millions of RMB in Consecutive Series A and A+ Rounds, With Yunqi Capital Continuing to Invest

Accelerating the Industrialization of AI Robots

Yunqi Capital | Wireless Pool Robot Company "YuanDing Intelligence" Closes Nearly 1 Billion RMB Strategic Funding Round, Partners with Industry Giants to Accelerate Global Expansion

Seizing the Critical Moment, Breaking Through Across All Channels

Dissecting LLMs in Cars: How to Turn Automobiles Into "Thinking" Robots? | Yunqi Capital Attent!on Podcast

AI technology continues to leap forward, and our daily lives — what we wear, eat, live in, and how we get around — are being profoundly reshaped by this technological storm. In the mobility sector in particular, a new wave of intelligent vehicle evolution, driven by "large models hitting the road," is now in full swing.

Yitu Technology Closes Pre-A Round, How AIOS Is Reimagining Automotive Smart Spaces | Yunqi Capital

Another follow-on investment, continuing the journey together.

Still in Between Startups? Maybe It's Time to Talk to Someone | Yunqi Capital × Shanghai Jiao Tong University Engineering Research Institute "Finding Next-Gen AI Founders" — Now Open for Registration

Whether in technological innovation or commercial exploration, AI is the most striking blue ocean of the moment.

How Europe's Fastest-Growing AI Startup Landed $120 Million in Revenue in 90 Days | Yunqi Tech π

When will the fabled "breakout year for AI applications" actually arrive? There's no consensus yet. But the critical question of commercialization is already being explored and tested across AI applications in several verticals — customer service, law, programming, and beyond.

Yunqi Capital Portfolio x GTC 2025: Spatial Intelligence, RoadAGI — What New Moves Are the Unicorns Pulling? | Yunqi Capital

Let AI Connect to the Physical World

黄仁勋GTC年度演讲:150分钟,揭秘英伟达新「硬货」和新未来 | 云启科技π

北京时间3月19日凌晨1点,英伟达创始人黄仁勋GTC年度演讲如期而至。

Fifteen Years Building a Startup, He's Now Deploying Robots Worldwide | Yunqi Capital Doers

From "robot waiters" in restaurants to "robot cleaners" in hotels, service robots have become increasingly common in our daily lives. Yunqi Capital portfolio company *Keenon Robotics* is a leading enterprise in embodied AI service robots. While deeply penetrating the Chinese market, Keenon has been actively expanding overseas since 2020, with its global operations now covering 600+ cities and regions worldwide.

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"