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Founded in early 2025, Vivix is a portfolio company of Monolith. For the past 19 months, the company has remained almost entirely silent. **Beneath the surface, it has completed five funding rounds at a valuation of $1.32 billion.**
Recently, AI 3D company Meshy announced the completion of a nearly $400 million Series B funding round, with a post-money valuation exceeding 10 billion RMB.
In the early hours of July 17, Moonshot AI released Kimi K3. This is a Mixture of Experts (MoE) model with 2.8 trillion total parameters, activating 16 out of 896 experts per token, with native support for visual input and a 1 million token context window. The company calls it "**the first open 3T-level model**."
While Moonshot AI's K3 still **lags behind the strongest closed-source models, Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol, in overall performance**, it demonstrated cutting-edge capabilities across our full benchmark suite and consistently outperformed all other models.
The Bingham Canyon Copper Mine in Utah is the largest excavation ever dug by human hands. From satellite, it looks like a gash torn open in the Earth's crust — four kilometers across, more than 1,200 meters deep. You could drop the Burj Khalifa in there and still need to stuff in several dozen more buildings just to reach ground level.
On July 6, Even Realities announced the completion of a $150 million Pre-B funding round, bringing its post-money valuation to over $1 billion. The round was led by Meituan Longzhu and Meituan Strategic Investment, with existing shareholders Tencent and Yuan Yi participating with additional oversubscribed investments.
AI-native asset management firm GIM recently completed a Series A round of tens of millions of dollars, co-led by Jinyou Investment, a vehicle under HONY Capital, and B Capital, with IDG Capital participating. Howard Morgan, global chairman of co-lead investor B Capital, is also a co-founder of quantitative investing giant Renaissance Technologies.
Over the past two years, most funding in embodied intelligence has flowed into robot hardware itself: humanoid forms, quadrupeds, dexterous hands, robotic arms. Robots have grown increasingly human-like — they can walk, jump, grasp, and the movements in demo videos have grown ever smoother. But the moment they actually enter factories, homes, and service environments, problems quickly surface: **what robots lack isn't just a body; they need to learn how humans use theirs**.
Made the list for two consecutive years on the strength of investments in MetaX, Unitree, and other companies.
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