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Baidu is a Chinese technology company whose search advertising business has faced structural headwinds as the domestic internet ecosystem shifts from web-based to app-based usage. Per a Linear Capital analysis from October 2024, Baidu's search ad share was already declining in 2024, with the company reporting roughly 200 million DAU — a fraction of ByteDance's Douyin at 800 million DAU . The same analysis noted that ByteDance, not Baidu, is better positioned to build general-purpose AI search because it controls both the largest traffic entry point and the broadest cross-industry app matrix . Baidu appears in elsewhere's corpus mainly as a benchmark or former employer: Du Zhiheng, CEO of AI infrastructure startup Cloudsway.AI, previously worked there before moving to a hedge fund and then founding his own company in late 2022 .elsewhere's corpus does not cover Baidu's founding, full business scope, or current strategic positioning in depth.
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Liblib, what's your dream?
Here's to hoping we can keep winning.
elsewhere别处发生·A Conversation with Chen Yilun of Tashi: In the Trillion-Dollar Embodied Intelligence Arena, Only Those Who Win the War Are Heroes
The first panoramic telling of the Tashi founding story.
线性资本·Dancing with Love, Zhang Huaiting: Staying a Calm "Value Builder" Amid the AI Hype
Make decisions toward your goals, not away from your difficulties.
真格基金·PhotonPay Secures Tens of Millions of Dollars in Series B Funding Led by IDG Capital
What Will the Next-Generation Value Network Look Like?
暗涌Waves·Sp.01 | Debriefing China's Primary Market in 2025 (Ft. Crossroads)
elsewhere别处发生·Will AI Hardware Get Its Own iPhone? | Mono X
All unprofitable hardware innovation is, at its core, a false proposition.
Monolith砺思资本·Yunqi Capital Doers | MiniMax's Junjie Yan and Yonghao Luo's Four-Hour Deep Dive on "Hard but Right"
Before consensus emerges, choose the hardest path.
云启资本·Dancing with Love: Zhang Huaiting on Serial Entrepreneurship — Why Education Deserves Another AI Makeover | Tsinghua Campus Tour
At a technological inflection point, you have to throw yourself in to seize the era's opportunities.
真格基金·Yunqi Capital | Astribot Raises Hundreds of Millions in A++ Round to Accelerate Scale Deployment of Cable-Driven AI Robots
The Pioneer in Mass-Producing Cable-Driven AI Robots Continues to Evolve
云启资本·Ling Universe Raises 200 Million in New Funding to Build an AI World Operating System
A leap forward.
暗涌Waves·From Foundation Models to AI Companions: What Cyclical Patterns Lie Behind the Rotation of AI Hype Cycles?
First figure out how to "make something people love," then consider "what role AI plays."
峰瑞资本·Deep Dive: a16z's Global Top 100 AI Apps — New Patterns and Trends | Yunqi Techπ
It's not just about who's fastest — it's about who can stick around.
云启资本·From Mortgaging His House to Building the World's Largest Autonomous Fleet: Yu Enyuan's Seven-Year All-In Bet | Yunqi Capital Doers
"Neolix" and Its "Ant Army"
云启资本·Yuwuwei CEO Huaiting Zhang: Using Generative AI to Achieve "Teaching Students in Accordance with Their Aptitude, and Education Without Discrimination"
When building AI applications, we follow a 16-character principle: business-led, intelligence-driven, human-machine collaboration, pragmatic innovation.
真格基金·Interview with Liu Binxin, Heart Shadow Follows Form: AI Products Shouldn't Compete with Short Videos and Games for Users
Companionship that doesn't compete for your attention.
暗涌Waves·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
云启资本·What's Changed and Where Are the Opportunities in AI Agents in the First Half of 2025? | FreeS Research
Model Wars, App Boom, Commercialization
峰瑞资本·Ten Years of Entrepreneurship: The Stories of People Coming and Going in Kai Yu's Eyes at Horizon Robotics | Linear Voice
The only way to change the script is to change yourself.
线性资本·Yuaiweiwu Lin Wang: From Education Going Online to Going Intelligent — When Will the AI-Powered All-Capable Personal Tutor Arrive? | Gaorong Future
"Yuaiweiwu" — dancing with love, and dancing with AI.
高榕创投·5Y View | Bill Gurley: How the AI Wave Is Reshaping the Structure of Primary Markets
The AI wave interrupted a market correction that should have happened, and China's cutthroat competitive environment will actually forge stronger companies.
五源资本·"The Internet Queen" on the AI Era: Decoding Mary Meeker's *AI Trends Report* | Yunqi Capital Techπ
The AI wave is accelerating, bringing both opportunities and risks.
云启资本·Even Realities: The First Eye
The subject of smart glasses can only be glasses, and nothing else.
Monolith砺思资本·Linear Capital Portfolio Company Rokid Founder Misa Zhu Interview: The AI Glasses Battleground Is Only in China
The Springtime of an 11-Year-Old Company
线性资本·A Conversation with Rokid's Misa Zhu: The AI Glasses Battleground Is China Alone
The Spring of an 11-Year-Old Company
暗涌Waves·ZhenFund's Yusen Dai: A Deep Dive on AI Agents — Every Industry Will Face Its "Lee Sedol Moment" (Part 2)
We're still on day one of the AI intelligence revolution.
真格基金·ZhenFund's Yusen Dai: A Long Conversation on AI Agents — Every Industry Will Face Its "Sedol Moment" (Part 1)
In the Agent era, "attention is not all you need."
真格基金·The Clear Path, Hidden Path, and Rocky Path of AI Fundraising
Where does the money come from?
暗涌Waves·A Conversation with Cao Xudong: Eight Years of Entrepreneurship, Why the "One Flywheel, Two Legs" Strategy | Z Talk
When making decisions, always let customer value be your guide.
真格基金·A Conversation with Neolix's Yu Enyuan: Fresh 1 Billion Yuan Raise, How a Logistics Veteran Built an Autonomous Vehicle | Yunqi Capital's Doers Series
How does an atypical founder with a logistics background develop autonomous vehicles?
云启资本·"Linverse" Gu Jiawei: Three Funding Rounds in Six Months, Debuts Next-Gen Smart Hardware OS at CES | Linear Capital Portfolio Company
In the age of AI hardware, "sensing" systems will be rebuilt from the ground up.
线性资本·Pony.ai's Funding Story: Daydreams in a Winter Storm
The final exam is approaching.
暗涌Waves·LiDAR or cameras? How we see the autonomous driving route debate
This Industry, Which Elon Musk Has Doubted, Keeps Advancing Amid Skepticism and Support
峰瑞资本·10 Facts About 1,000 Chinese Billionaires
The currents of the era, all contained within the sequence.
暗涌Waves·Horizon Robotics Goes Public: We Can Finally Talk About Kai Yu's Story | Z Talk
How can a risk-averse entrepreneur pull off something incredibly risky?
真格基金·Event Recap | Search, Character.AI, Hardware: A Year of AI's Bumpy Road to Real-World Deployment
Linear Capital vs. Zhipu AI's Z Program — Text Summary
线性资本·A Conversation with Tsinghua University Professor Chen Wenguang: What If Large Models Stop Competing on "Largeness"?
Are Large Models Cooling Down, Fei-Fei Li's New Project, and AI's Sunshine for All
峰瑞资本·If wisdom lacks the courage of execution, it is all in vain | 5Y News Monthly
The big news from last month.
五源资本·Yunqi Research Select | Mid-Year AI Industry Review: Ten Hopes and Heartbreaks in the Year of Implementation
How Does the Balance Between Cost and Effectiveness Tip?
云启资本·Bolt Interview | Notta Founder Yan Zhang on Localization Strategies for AI SaaS Products in Japan
Rooted in Place, Returning to Place
线性资本·Event Recap | How AI Startups Can Drive Overseas Growth and Business Model Innovation
A Growth Guide for Internationalizing AI Products
线性资本·A VC Lesson from Tian Xuan
Thirty years, a journey of departures and returns.
暗涌Waves·Harry Wang: Where Are the Opportunities for Young People in the Coming Decade of AI?
On June 14–15, 36Kr WAVES New Wave 2024 was successfully held at Langyuan Station·Cangku in Beijing. WAVES means tide — a fitting metaphor for the courage and creative spirit of today's young people chasing their dreams. This year's conference centered on four themes: Ideal and Reality, Technology and Humanities, Exploration and Deep Cultivation, Tradition and Transformation — each addressing topics that resonate deeply with young people. They say life is a wilderness, but
线性资本·Looking Back at AI's "May": The Five Most Important Little Things | Attent!on Tech Notes
The future is already here — it's just not evenly distributed.
云启资本·MiniMax Founder Junjie Yan: First Principles on the Path to AGI | Yunqi Capital
What really needs to be done is to make technology and product iterate fast enough.
云启资本·Exclusive | Moonshot AI's valuation reaches $3 billion in new round; Tencent joins after Alibaba
A full list of Moonshot AI's investors to date.
暗涌Waves·Yunqi Capital | Embarking on Embodied Intelligence: Angel-Round Portfolio Company Astribot Unveils Next-Generation AI Robot Astribot S1
AI Brain + Best-in-Class Operational Performance, Naturally Yours
云启资本·China's LLM Funding War: The Quick Death of Romance
Do the investors regret it?
暗涌Waves·Yunqi Capital Year-End Roundup | Annual Deep-Dive Report: AI + Open Source + Commercialization = ?
Three Years Running: The New Trends in Open Source + AI
云启资本·FreeS Fund 2023 Year in Review: Take the Long View
In 2024, hold onto hope, keep pushing upward, and do what's right rather than what's easy.
峰瑞资本·Heaven's Feel: The Root of AI and Gaming | 5Y View
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
五源资本·Kai Yu, Horizon Robotics: The Scientist-Founder Journey from Zero to One | 5Y View
"Be roughly right, not precisely wrong."
五源资本·High-end chips, novel drugs, and robotics unlock innovation codes; LiDAR and new energy storage accelerate industrial deployment | Rongbao · August
Create infinite possibilities.
高榕创投·After 200+ Days of AIGC Fervor, Investors Reach Three Broad Consensuses
By Elune, edited by Jiumu, curated by Eason On July 19, Meta, Facebook's parent company, released the Llama 2 large language model, making it freely available for both research and commercial use — widely hailed as the most powerful open-source alternative to GPT-4. This marks a significant shift from the previous landscape, where numerous global large language models were built on Llama but constrained by its inability to be used commercially at no cost.
线性资本·Why Won't Chinese Database Companies Simply "Copy" the Snowflake Model? | Yunqi Capital Science Chat
Respect the market, seek common ground while reserving differences.
云启资本·Li Xiang x Li Feng: Why Did ChatGPT Emerge Today? What Happens Next? | Li Feng Column
Is there still a chance to build a Chinese OpenAI?
峰瑞资本·Linear Capital Portfolio Company | Sensors Data Gains Azure OpenAI Commercial Service Access, Taking the Lead in China's Intelligent Marketing Sector
Recently, ChatGPT has become officially available through OpenAI services on Azure, Microsoft's cloud computing operating system. Azure OpenAI integrates OpenAI's technologies, allowing Azure global enterprise customers to directly access OpenAI models on the cloud platform, including GPT-3.5, Codex, and DALL-E models, while enjoying Azu
线性资本·Why "Copy to China" Is Hard to Replicate, and Where China's LLM Opportunity Lies
Recently, Bai Zeren, Senior Investment Director at Linear Capital, sat down with *Jazzyear* to share his views on the entrepreneurial opportunities brought by ChatGPT. When it comes to the domestic market for large language model startups, Linear Capital remains optimistic. "While the engineering detours and challenges will take time to work through, the probability of Chinese companies producing something with 80% of ChatGPT's capabilities within two to three years is quite high — even if surpassing what OpenAI has already built will be difficult."
线性资本·The Most Intense Week in AIGC! AI's "iPhone Moment" Has Arrived | Yunqi Capital ChatGPT Special
AI Is Shifting Yet Again
云启资本·【Premiering March 19】Beyond "Chokepoint" Tech: The Imagination and Explosive Potential of Technology Entrepreneurship
See you Sunday morning~
峰瑞资本·The AI Inflection Point in the GPT Wave: Who's Betting Big? Who's Benefiting?
On February 28, ChinaVenture hosted a closed-door salon in Shanghai on the "AI Singularity," focusing on the impact of ChatGPT on entrepreneurship and investment in artificial intelligence. Zheng Can, Managing Director of Linear Capital, and Fangbo Tao, founder and CEO of Mindverse — an angel-round portfolio company of Linear Capital — attended the event and shared their perspectives on the topic. **Zheng Can noted that Linear Capital had already been tracking the AIGC space and had made multiple investments in the sector.**
线性资本·5Y News | 5Y Capital Portfolio Company "Nowcoder" Closes $50 Million Series B Funding
Powering the full lifecycle of campus recruiting — from sourcing to onboarding.
五源资本·Hesai Group surged 10% in its IPO — a promising start to 2023
Get moving!
暗涌Waves·The Toughest SaaS Market and Its Hottest Winner: How Sensors Data Built a Product with Nearly 100% Renewal Rate at a Billion-Dollar Valuation
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线性资本·"This Is an Ordinary Day" | 2022 in Review
Don't summarize unless necessary.
暗涌Waves·ChatGPT is the talk of Silicon Valley, but the buzz is theirs.
"Some people laughed. Some people cried. The vast majority fell silent."
暗涌Waves·5Y News | 5Y Capital Portfolio Company PhiGent Robotics Closes Tens of Millions of USD in Series A+ Funding
Based on software-hardware co-optimization, we are building 3D intelligent computing for autonomous driving and robotics, enabling intelligent interaction between machines and the physical world.
五源资本·Database startup **Chengzhang Data** has raised tens of millions of RMB in an angel round led by **Linear Capital** | Linear News
Linear Capital director Zheng Can said: "Data analytics and management platform software, with databases as a representative category, is a thriving market with enormous potential, but at the same time it is also..."
线性资本·【Streaming Sept. 25】Li Feng in Conversation with Feng Yuchuan of QingTao Energy | With New Energy in the Spotlight, How to View Innovation and Development in the Power Battery Sector
Going live this Sunday at 10 a.m. sharp.
峰瑞资本·Biren Technology Releases First General-Purpose GPU Chip, Setting New Global Record for Computing Power
Evolution never stops, and neither does computation.
高榕创投·Linear Capital Leads Angel Round in Metaverse Infrastructure Startup Qiyihuo Technology Elsewhere.News | Qiyihuo Technology, a metaverse infrastructure provider, has announced a multimillion-yuan angel funding round led by Linear Capital.
36Kr has learned that Qiyihuo Technology announced it has raised tens of millions of yuan in an angel round led by Linear Capital, with listed company L&A Design participating as a co-investor. Following this round, the company will focus on developing its underlying technology, expanding market operations, and building out its ecosystem — marking its second successful fundraising after an earlier seed round of several million yuan.
线性资本·"Data Science Team Collaboration" Explained: Hejing Technology Founder and CEO Fan Xiangwei Breaks Down What It Actually Means
Fan Xiangwei, founder and CEO of HeyWhale, is a rare breed — one of the earliest entrants in a niche most overlook: data science team collaboration tools. He sat down with *Dear Data* to share what's on his mind.
线性资本·Lightelligence's Yichen Shen in Conversation with FreeS Fund's Li Feng: The Present and Future of Chip Industry's World-Class Challenges | 424 Livestream Registration
Let's Talk About That Chip
峰瑞资本·Why We're Bullish on Optical Chips | FreeS Fund Chip Series
What unexpected challenges do chip startups face?
峰瑞资本·How Do Tech Companies Go From "Technology Is Valuable" to "Technology Makes Money"? | FreeS Research --- In the past two years, the tech industry has undergone a profound shift. The era of "technology for technology's sake" is fading. Companies that once commanded sky-high valuations based on technical prowess alone are now facing a harsh reality: investors and markets increasingly demand proof that technology can translate into sustainable profits. This transition—from "technology is valuable" to "technology makes money"—is far from automatic. It requires fundamental changes in how tech companies think about product-market fit, commercialization strategy, and organizational capabilities. ## The Valuation Trap For years, Chinese tech companies were rewarded for technical milestones. Breakthroughs in AI, quantum computing, or autonomous driving could attract hundreds of millions in funding before a single revenue dollar was earned. The underlying assumption: superior technology would inevitably find commercial applications. This logic has collapsed on multiple fronts. Some technologies proved to be solutions in search of problems. Others faced regulatory headwinds that made their intended business models unviable. Still others discovered that the cost of commercial deployment far exceeded initial projections, rendering unit economics untenable. The result is a growing cohort of "zombie unicorns
Why should tech talent avoid "walking around with a hammer looking for nails"?
峰瑞资本·5Y News | Cloud Security Community "FireLine Security" Closes Two Consecutive Funding Rounds
New Models for Security Products
五源资本·How Should We Think About the Present and Future of Drug R&D? | FreeS Fund Dialogue Vol. 2 — Final 2 Days to Register
What new variables and opportunities are emerging in the drug development industry?
峰瑞资本·5Y News | "Tapdata Secures Tens of Millions of USD Across Two Consecutive Rounds, Carving Out a New Track in Real-Time Data Services"
Building a real-time data service platform for TP operations.
五源资本·Guoxin Technology Secures New Round of Strategic Investment to Lead Innovation in IoT AI Chips
Covering the full-scenario application of "human-vehicle-home," shaping a better life with "chips."
高榕创投·5Y News | After Raising Hundreds of Millions in Three Consecutive Rounds, "Yahaha" to Build Real-Time Digital Entertainment UGC Platform
A no-code, multiplayer interactive entertainment creation platform for global users.
五源资本·How to Build Your Corporate Brand Strategy from 0 to 1 | FreeS Talk
"Different" beats "better."
峰瑞资本·The past has become the future, the future has become the past, and both have become the present | 5Y News Monthly
What major events happened last month?
五源资本·Innovusion, a global leader in image-grade LiDAR, has completed a $64 million Series B funding round.
Committed to delivering safer, smarter, and more efficient transportation and mobility.
高榕创投·Why Was It So Hard to Make Money in 2021? | Li Feng Column
If the stock market roller coaster has left you a bit dizzy, you might want to read this.
峰瑞资本·FreeS Fund's 2021 Outlook ④ | The Endgame for Sensors Behind Autonomous Driving
Is the "Tesla Vision" approach the future of autonomous driving?
峰瑞资本·Hangzhou Nationalchip Technology Completes Hundreds of Millions of Yuan in Series C Funding
Focused on chip design and system solutions for digital television and AIoT (AI + IoT).
高榕创投·Kaikela Secures $550 Million Independent Financing, Leading the New Vocational Education Track --- Kaikela has raised 550 million yuan in independent financing, positioning itself at the forefront of the new vocational education sector.
Dedicated to cultivating digital talent for the new infrastructure era, leading the charge in modern vocational education.
高榕创投·A Visual Guide to How New Platforms Are Born | Li Feng Column
The Importance of Datafication to Platform Ascendance
峰瑞资本·When Traffic Costs More Than Gold, How Do You Actually Drive Growth? | Ronghui
Hunting for traffic in the "stock era."
高榕创投·Warm congratulations to Gaotu Techedu on its successful NYSE listing
Technology makes education better.
高榕创投·Gaorong Ventures received honors including 36Kr's "Top 10 Most LP-Friendly VC Firms in China" and ChinaVenture's "Top 10 Best VC Firms in China 2018."
Thank you to all parties across the industry for your continued trust and support.
高榕创投·Wu Minghui, Minglamp Technology: Every New Data Point Drives Business Model Iteration | FreeS Fund 2019 CEO Annual Meeting
Why haven't Chinese software and data companies made serious money?
峰瑞资本·Gaorong Ventures' Xiang Gao: Finding Irreversible Trends to Withstand Market Volatility
The Logic Behind the "Irreversible" Trend
高榕创投·Gaorong Ventures' Chang Chen: Consumer Markets in Third-, Fourth-, and Fifth-Tier Cities Are Full of Opportunity
Third- and fourth-tier cities account for over 63% of total social retail consumption, far surpassing the combined share of first- and second-tier cities.
高榕创投·A Conversation with the "Three Musketeers" of Gaorong Ventures: Embracing Technology to Create a Better Life
From 0 to 1, and on to 1 to 10
高榕创投·FreeS Fund Angel-Round Portfolio Company SoundAI Technology Closes RMB 200 Million Series B Round | FreeS Funding News
AI technology must be deeply integrated with industry know-how.
峰瑞资本·Yue Bin, founding partner of Gaorong Ventures, won the "Top 10 Most Influential VC Investors of 2018" award.
Gaorong Ventures was named to the "2018 Top 10 Most Influential VC Firms." At the same time, Rui Han, Aisi Zuo, and Wang Xin, vice presidents at Gaorong Ventures, were jointly selected as "Most Popular Elite Investors of the Year."
高榕创投·The Gaorong Ventures Way: Know What to Do, Know What Not to Do
A matter of resolve.
高榕创投·Video Technology Company YouHua Tech Raises Tens of Millions of USD in Series B Funding | Gaorong Ventures News
We will continue to increase R&D investment. Strong technical and product capabilities are the foremost conditions for winning in the video space.
高榕创投·Gaorong Ventures was named among the top three best venture capital funds at the 2018 Golden Bridge Awards and ranked in the top ten Chinese VC firms in Zero2IPO's 2018 rankings.
Create long-term value for society
高榕创投·Gaorong Ventures Closes $500 Million New Fund, Positioning Itself as a Long-Term Partner in Building Startup Value
Institutional LPs provide the capital foundation; entrepreneur LPs drive ecosystem value-add.
高榕创投·Chang Chen of Gaorong Ventures Honored as "Cyzone 2018 China Investor of the Year"
Be a value co-builder for startups.
高榕创投·Gaorong Ventures was named among the "Top 10 VC Firms of 2018 (Growth Stage)" by the China Venture Capital and Private Equity Association, among other honors.
Measuring the Value of Watchfulness by the Yardstick of Time
高榕创投·Testin Cloud Testing: A Typical Industrial Internet Startup Case Study | Gaorong Ventures Sharing
Make Apps More Valuable
高榕创投·FreeS Fund Angel-Round Portfolio Company NextVPU Closes 200 Million RMB Series A | FreeS Funding News
We provide professional solutions for robotics, drones, autonomous vehicles, and security surveillance.
峰瑞资本·Li Feng Column | The Trade War Gets a Comma, but China's Secret Weapon Is Just About to Show Its Edge
What makes China's economic experience distinctive is that much of it consists of "the unintended consequences of human action."
峰瑞资本·[Long Read] Two Decades of Rise and Fall in Chinese Animation | FreeS Fund Business School
How Much Further Is China's Path to Becoming Disney?
峰瑞资本·I Saw the Future Before the Product Iteration, and I Couldn't Pretend I Hadn't | FreeS Fund Business School
Spend 80% of your time doubling down on what works, and 20% testing new channels.
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