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Articles

Can the "ChatGPT" That Writes Songs and Codes Replace Humans? | Yunqi Science Chat

"ChatGPT Is Coming for Our Jobs Tomorrow"?

Yunqi Capital's Chen Yu Named to 2022 "F40 China Young Investors" List | Yunqi Capital News

Innovation is reshaping the present and defining the future.

"Zilliz": Eight Predictions for the Vector Database Industry in 2023 | Yunqi Capital

The Future Outlook for Vector Databases

Yunqi Capital Earns Multiple Honors on 36Kr's "Top Investors and Investment Firms Across 10 Sectors of the Innovation Economy" | Yunqi Capital News

Building Momentum, Advancing with Steadiness --- This appears to be a slogan or tagline (possibly for a company annual report, government work report, or institutional messaging). The four-character parallel structure is common in formal Chinese rhetoric. I've rendered it with rhythmic concision that preserves the paired conceptual contrast: "蓄能积势" (accumulating energy/momentum) and "行稳致远" (proceeding steadily to reach far — a classical idiom derived from *The Book of Changes*).

Yunqi Capital Named Again to 21st Century Business Herald's "Top 10 Early-Stage Investment Institutions for Technology and Manufacturing" and Other Awards | Yunqi Capital News

The journey toward the long game continues.

"Kujiale" Featured by Chinese Embassy in Kenya, Digital Showroom Technology Advances International Exchange | Yunqi Capital

New Ways of Cross-Cultural Exchange

A Breakthrough Dual-Fuel Hydrogen Engine Could Spark a Revolution | Yunqi Science Talk --- *This article is republished from the WeChat public account: Yunqi Capital (ID: yunqicapital), author: Yunqi Capital, original title: "A Breakthrough Dual-Fuel Hydrogen Engine Could Spark a Revolution | Yunqi Science Talk", authorized reprint.* --- Hydrogen energy has always been regarded as one of the most promising clean energy sources for the future. However, the high cost of hydrogen fuel cells and the low efficiency of hydrogen internal combustion engines have long constrained its large-scale application. Recently, a research team from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia has developed a revolutionary **dual-fuel hydrogen engine** that achieves an astonishing **90% thermal efficiency** while completely eliminating carbon emissions. This technological breakthrough may completely change the landscape of hydrogen energy applications. ## How It Works: The "Diesel-Hydrogen Hybrid" Approach The core innovation of this engine lies in its unique dual-fuel combustion system. Unlike traditional hydrogen internal combustion engines that rely solely on hydrogen ignition — which suffer from low efficiency and tendency toward abnormal combustion — this engine adopts a **"

Diesel Engines Can Drive the Carbon-Neutral Revolution Too

Yunqi Capital Wins Jazzyear's "China's Best Early-Stage Hard Tech Investment Firm" and Other Awards | Yunqi Capital News

Through Challenges, Undeterred by Long Journeys

Shanghai Jiao Tong University & New Energy | Yunqi Capital BBQ Vol.42

Innovation and Challenges in the New Energy Sector

The Only Chinese Company Named a "Strong Performer" by Forrester, PingCAP Leads HTAP Frontier Trends | Yunqi Capital

Leading the "Invisible Technology" Era

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"