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Articles

How Do You Get Large Models to Actually "Get Their Hands Dirty"? | Riding the AGI+ Wave in the Greater Bay Area

Searching for new forms, new extensions, and new frontiers of applications.

Tech Giants and Foundation Models: Real Business Is What Matters | "Yunqi FutureScope"

Return to reason, step into practice.

Yunqi's Chen Yu: The "80/20 Rule" in the LLM Era | Tencent Tech × Tidal Wave AGI+

Getting a model to 95% accuracy is definitely a moat.

One Chart to See It All | The "Yunqi Capital AGI+ Full Suite" Is Rolling Out Now!

New infrastructure + new applications — boosting efficiency, cutting costs, savings you can see.

Yunqi Capital Repeats as Top 5 Early-Stage VC in China at CV Awards, Among Other Honors | Yunqi News

Technological Innovation Powers Industrial Development

Large Models+: What New Entry Points, Changes, and Possibilities Lie Ahead? | Yunqi Capital · Riding the AGI+ Wave

Greater Bay Area AGI+ Founders, Assemble!

"RealMan Intelligent Technology" Closes Series A+ Round, Yunqi Capital Continues to Double Down | Yunqi Capital

Partnering with RealMan to Drive Ecosystem Growth for Ultra-Lightweight Humanoid Robotic Arms in the Service Sector

"Yunqi · Silicon Valley FutureScope" In the LLM Era, Who Is the World's Most Powerful Influencer?

Yunqi Capital Investors' Silicon Valley Trip: A Firsthand Account

Speed Up LLM Apps 100x With Just a Few Lines of Code! How Yunqi Capital Helps Large Models Cut Costs and Boost Performance | Riding the AGI+ Wave

Who's Helping Large Models Cut Costs and Boost Speed?

AGI in Practice, Innovation Breakthroughs, and Frontier Insights This Spring | Yunqi Capital Quarterly · Spring Issue

New thinking and new practice in AI from Yunqi Capital and its portfolio companies.

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"