Mao Chengyu, Yunqi Capital: DeepSeek Accelerates AI Application Adoption — Where to Invest in AI in 2025? | Partners' Perspectives
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More Challenges, More Possibilities
Recently, **Weichong Semiconductor**, a Yunqi Capital portfolio company specializing in semiconductor metrology and inspection equipment, **closed a Series A+ round of tens of millions of RMB**. The round was led by Jinyu Maowu, Optics Valley Semiconductor Industry Investment, and Saina Capital. The funds will be used for R&D, market expansion, and team building.
DeepSeek's open-source push keeps accelerating, and the chain reactions it set off continue to ripple through the industry. As a major focus of tech entrepreneurship and venture investment in recent years, how will AI's venture narrative shift? What changes are entrepreneurs and investors on the ground actually sensing?
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The AI Race Heats Up
What has DeepSeek — the "Pinduoduo of AI" known for high performance and low cost — brought to the AI ecosystem?
The Lunar New Year holiday just past was anything but quiet in the global tech world. DeepSeek — that "mysterious force from the East" — shattered the assumption that top-tier AI performance requires top-tier computing power, reshaping the global AI landscape through a series of technical innovations and planting a seed of confidence for the year of innovation ahead.
In 2015, when AlphaGo first defeated professional Go player Fan Hui 2-dan, AI still felt like a distant concept to the general public. By 2025, chatbots, intelligent driving systems, and AI hardware have become ubiquitous — the era of intelligence is transforming from vision into reality.
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