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Ling Universe Secures RMB 200 Million Pre-A Financing On November 17, AI + consumer robotics company Ling Universe (Shanghai Ling Universe Technology Development Co., Ltd.) announced the completion of a RMB 200 million Pre-A series funding round. Investors in This Round Joint investment came from leading financial institutions and listed companies,
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Immersive AI-Powered Travel — A New Cultural Journey Morning sunlight filters through ancient window lattices, illuminating golden disc-shaped artifacts at the Marquis of Haihun State Ruins Museum. The shimmer prompts a child to ask: > “Mom, why did this emperor have so much gold?” The mother records the question and asks
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2025: The Year Smartphones Go Big Next year is shaping up to be a “big” year for high-end smartphones — not just in performance, but in physical size. Expect: * Bigger screens * Bigger camera sensors * Bigger batteries These upgrades will bring a triple leap in user experience. But bigger hardware also comes
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From Tools and Platforms to AI Agents: Redefining Software Products In the world of software, we’ve long oscillated between tools and platforms. Now, the rise of AI Agents is creating a third paradigm — not passive execution or generic hosting, but proactive collaboration with continuously evolving intelligent entities. This guide
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Context and Background There are always people online who take words out of context, twist them, and smear reputations. Recently, Lei Jun posted several consecutive updates on Weibo — unusually emotional in tone. > “I’ve rarely seen Lei Jun’s posts with visible emotion,” > remarked a colleague at ifanr.
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Embodied Intelligence: China’s New National Strategy in 2025 Source | Phoenix Finance (finance_ifeng) Image source | Midjourney From Iron Man–style test flights, to robots picking tea leaves, to elderly care robots assisting mobility, sci-fi is fast becoming reality. In China’s 2025 Government Work Report, “embodied intelligence” is named
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Alibaba Launches Qianwen APP — A New AI Assistant in Public Beta A few days ago, Alibaba’s “Qianwen Project” was leaked, revealing plans to build a personal AI assistant — Qianwen APP — based on Qwen3, one of the globally top-performing open-source AI models. And now, the wait is over: Alibaba has
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🗂 Interesting Weekly Digest > “Interesting Weekly Digest” is my personal side project where I curate and summarize weekly reading highlights along with personal reflections. > The goal is to build a stronger personal knowledge framework while sharing curated insights with you. --- 📌 This Week’s Highlights 📰 Recommended Reading * Let AI
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Redefining the Public Service Experience with Humanoid Robots When intelligent technology steps out of the lab and into government service halls, how should we rethink the “service experience”? Using the example of the Xpeng Robot, this article explores human–machine collaboration in public services, showing how technology can reshape workflows,
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Kronos — Financial Market Foundation Model Repo: shiyu-coder/Kronos Stars: 8.3k License: MIT Kronos is an open-source foundation model designed specifically for financial market K-line data. Key Features * Decoder Architecture — Pre-trained on multi-dimensional continuous K-line data (OHLCV) from 45 exchanges worldwide. * Two-Stage Tokenization — Quantizes continuous data into hierarchical discrete tokens.
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LibrePods: Unlocking AirPods Features for Android & Linux GitHub Repository LibrePods is an open-source project that brings Apple AirPods’ exclusive features to Android and Linux, bypassing Apple’s ecosystem restrictions. Supported Devices * AirPods Pro (2nd gen) — fully supported * AirPods 3rd gen — all features except heart rate monitoring * Other models — basic
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Introduction: The Shift to Full-Modality AI Multimodal AI is evolving from single-perception systems toward integrated vision, audio, and text processing — the era of full-modality large models (Omni-models). However, evaluation systems lag behind: * Tools are scarce, fragmented, and English-centric * Limited support for Chinese-language scenarios * Some datasets fail to require actual multimodal