Japan's AI upstart Sakana AI secures $135 million in funding, soaring valuation opens a new journey of two-front strategy
On November 17, Japanese AI unicorn Sakana AI announced the completion of $135 million (about RMB 960 million) in Series B financing, valued at $2.635 billion (about RMB 18.73 billion), bringing the total financing to about $347 million (about RMB 24...
52 people use AI to make PPT on a platform that serves 70 million customers and makes $700 million a year
52 people, an AI PPT tool, annual revenue of hundreds of millions of dollars. In Silicon Valley AI companies generally “burn money for growth” in 2025, but they rely on PPT to do a miracle valuation of 2.1 billion dollars. The name of this company is Gamma. Gamma has 70 million users...
From 0 to $29.3 billion in two and a half years: Cursor sets a new global AI programming valuation ceiling
The highest valuation of an AI programming company in the world has just been set again. Cursor (the company behind it is Anysphere), a popular frying pan of the AI programming world, has once again stretched the industry's imagination to its fullest - with its latest valuation soaring to $29.3 billion, or roughly 207.9 billion...
Baidu reveals Xiaodu AI glasses “brain”, details 5 functions, cat's-eye models issued in December
Today, 2025 Baidu World Congress opened in Beijing, in the General Assembly, Baidu Group Vice President, Xiaodu Technology CEO Li Ying announced that Xiaodu voice assistant will be comprehensively upgraded to a multi-modal AI intelligent assistant super Xiaodu, all Xiaodu's new products will be equipped with super Xiaodu, and tens of millions of Xiaodu has been sold devices to support...
NVIDIA's OmniVinci: 9B model open-source downloads break 10,000, triggering a new wave of AI multimodality
Since the beginning of this year, the open source big model battlefield has been full of smoke. People from all walks of life are fully invested here, trying to seize the ecological position in the next era of AI. And a trend that can't be ignored is that Chinese big models, are strongly ruling the 'Hall of Fame' of open source base models. From DeepSeek in Code and Math...
Hippocratic AI Secures $126 Million in Funding, Valued at $3.5 Billion, as Healthcare AI Unicorns Accelerate
On November 3, Hippocratic AI, a U.S.-based generative AI medical unicorn, announced the completion of a $126 million (roughly Rs. 897 million) round of C financing, with participation from CapitalG, an independent growth fund under Google parent company Alphabet. This round of financing also makes...
Uncover Cambrian's 10 years of iteration: from the big model to the search and push, domestic arithmetic to attack the “software moat”
Arithmetic power has become the core engine that drives the continuous evolution of the AI industry. With the rapid rise of the domestic large model system, the construction of an autonomous, controllable and sustainable domestic arithmetic ecological closed loop, so that the domestic arithmetic platform is deeply adapted to the domestic AI ecosystem, has become the consensus of the industry and the key direction. It is gratifying that...
Stanford Genius Teen Founds AI Company, Speech Model Sonic-3 Raises $100 Million Series B from NVIDIA and Others
On October 29, Karan Goel, founder and CEO of U.S.-based speech-generation startup Cartesia, announced the launch of a new speech model, Sonic-3, on social platform X. He also disclosed that it had completed a $100 million (roughly Rs. 712 million) financing round, which NVIDIA...
Mercor, an AI upstart founded by 3 post-00s, raises $350 million in funding, valuation breaks $10 billion
What is the concept of dropping out of school at the age of 22 to start a business and doing it at the age of 24 to create a unicorn with a valuation of 10 billion dollars? Today, the U.S. AI recruitment unicorn Mercor officially announced that it has taken 250 million U.S. dollars (equivalent to about 1.8 billion yuan) of new financing, valued at 10 billion U.S. dollars (equivalent to about 71 billion yuan), which is its present...
Tencent ima 2.0 released, one sentence search millions of knowledge bases, 200 million pieces of knowledge
October 23, in tencent AI workbench ima released the first anniversary of the event site, ima2.0 version of the updated content was officially announced, including the Agent ability based on the “task mode”, as well as the knowledge base “AI key points” and other functions, will be launched on the 24th internal beta test on the 27th. It will be launched on the 24th for internal testing, and will be officially launched on the 27th...