The Information Releases "50 Most Promising Startups in the World"
On November 11, the US tech media outlet The Information released its list of *50 Most Promising Startups Globally for 2026*. Two ZhenFund portfolio companies, Nature Will and Mindverse, made the list. Six Asian companies were included this year, with these two ranked second and third among Asian entrants, respectively. In October, Nature Will released Natura-1, its first general-purpose foundation model for the physical world. The model was pretrained on over 1 million hours of human first-person perspective data and can follow language instructions zero-shot. Mindverse focuses on post-training of large models and released its agent model Macaron-V1.1 in September this year. In November, Deep Principle released Hydrogen-1.0, an open-weight scientific model, and Mind Lab participated in the model's post-training based on that platform. <a class="wx_topic_link" topic-id="mwd6an9h-g0wzad" style="color: #576B95 !important;" data-topic="1" data-recommend="">#Tech</a> <a class="wx_topic_link" topic-id="mwd6an9h-ueit
On November 11, the US tech media outlet The Information released its "50 Most Promising Startups of 2026" list.
Two ZhenFund portfolio companies, Nature Will and Mindverse, made the list. Six Asian companies were featured this year, with these two ranking second and third among Asian companies, respectively.
In October, Nature Will released Natura-1, the first general-purpose foundation model for the physical world. The model was pretrained on over 1 million hours of first-person human data and can follow language instructions zero-shot.
Mindverse, meanwhile, focuses on post-training for large models and released its agent model Macaron-V1.1 in September this year. In November, Deep Principle released the open-weight scientific model Hydrogen-1.0, and Mind Lab participated in the model's post-training on that platform.
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