Recently, Luo Yonghao's AR startup, Thin Red Line, announced its official launch of spring recruitment for 2025, attracting considerable attention. The company's currently open full-time positions are all for Product Managers, including Senior Software Product Manager, AI Software Product Manager, IM Software Product Manager, BI Data Product Manager, and Commercialization Product Manager. Locations are in Shanghai and Beijing, though specific salary ranges haven't been publicly disclosed. According to industry media outlet 36Kr, Luo Yonghao's latest...

2024 was a landmark year for the AI industry. According to TechCrunch, 49 startups secured over $100 million in funding, with seven raising over $1 billion and three securing multiple mega-funding rounds. This momentum continues into 2025. Despite it being early in the year, the number of US AI companies receiving over $100 million in funding is nearing double digits, with at least one round exceeding $1 billion. The following are the companies that have secured over $100 million in funding so far in 2025...

The rapid advancement of AI is leading to increased reliance on AI-generated code among developers. This trend is particularly evident in the latest batch of startups from Y Combinator (YC), a renowned Silicon Valley startup accelerator. In a recent YouTube conversation, YC partner Jared Friedman revealed that 25% of the Winter 2025 (W25) batch have codebases that are 95% AI-generated. Friedman clarified...

Snowflake has added $200 million to its startup accelerator program to support the growth of promising AI startups.

Lovable, a Swedish startup, has raised $15 million in funding to develop its platform that allows users to build applications using prompts without any coding experience.

In US cities and suburbs, felled trees often end up being chipped instead of being made into lumber. This frustrated Ben Christensen, who grew up in New Mexico with a family deeply rooted in the lumber industry – his father was a carpenter – instilling in him a deep respect for trees. Image Note: Image generated by AI, image licensing service Midjourney Christensen points out that the main reason for wood waste is...

Recently, UK-based AI and robotics startup Humanoid unveiled its versatile humanoid robot HMND01 in a new video. This robot features a bipedal design that mimics human movement and actions, equipped with a head, torso, arms, and legs, along with fingered hands that possess high-speed and precise operational capabilities, enabling it to perform complex tasks. This is made possible by its numerous high-torque and high-speed actuators. Humanoid's founder and serial entrepreneur Artem Sokolov stated, 'The greatest achievement of humanoid robots is to...'

Recently, AI programming startup Codeium is undergoing a new funding round, with a valuation close to $2.85 billion. According to sources, this funding round is led by investment firm Kleiner Perkins, marking another occasion where Codeium has garnered investor attention after six months. Notably, in the past six months, Codeium completed a $150 million Series C funding round, with a post-funding valuation of $1.25 billion. Although the specific amount for the new funding round has not been disclosed yet.

Crunchbase announced that it will abandon its role as a historical data provider and transform into an AI-driven prediction engine. This new platform will be able to predict startup funding rounds, acquisitions, and growth trajectories with an accuracy of up to 95%, marking a significant strategic shift for Crunchbase. Crunchbase CEO Jagger McConnell stated in an interview that the traditional historical data industry is in decline. He believes that data companies relying solely on historical data...

Recently, Tencent E-signature's official account announced the upcoming launch of an AI contract drafting feature. This innovative function will leverage Tencent's Hunyuan and DeepSeek large model technologies to provide users with a convenient one-click contract generation service.

According to the latest data from analysis company Dealroom, funding for AI startups reached $110 billion in 2024, representing a 62% increase from last year. In contrast, the overall funding situation in the tech industry was less favorable, with the total amount of funding for private equity-backed companies (including startups and growth companies) amounting to $227 billion, a 12% decrease from 2023. Image source note: The image was generated by AI, image licensed from Midjourney. Dealroom founder.

Founded by former OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, the AI startup SSI (Safe Superintelligence) is currently in negotiations for a new round of funding, expected to value the company at $20 billion, quadrupling its valuation from last September. Although SSI has yet to generate any revenue, this hefty valuation reflects investors' confidence in its potential to develop transformative AI technologies. Unlike other AI companies, SSI focuses on safety.