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1. 2d
   Infinigence AI closes RMB 2.3B C round ahead of confidential Hong Kong IPO filing

   Infinigence AI, a Chinese AI compute-scheduling company, has completed a RMB 2.3 billion Series C round, bringing total funding to roughly RMB 4.3 billion, according to a report republished by Cyzone and originally from Guangzhui Tech. Citing unnamed sources and Bloomberg, the report says the company filed confidentially with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in early October to raise several hundred million dollars, with CITIC Securities, Haitong International and UBS as sponsors and a listing possibly as early as the first half of 2027; the IPO details have not been confirmed by the company. Infinigence does not make chips or own data centers, saying it manages more than 37,000 P of compute across 16 mainstream chip types, and at WAIC it reframed its business from selling raw compute to selling tokens through a "front store, back factory, one center" model. Rival SiliconFlow, which filed in Hong Kong in June, reported 2025 revenue of RMB 55.33 million (up 653%) alongside a widening net loss of RMB 345 million and gross margin falling from 39.4% to -24%, underscoring the profitability challenge for such intermediaries.

   创业邦 科技 · 🔥 3
2. Oct 9
   Manus raises over $500M at ~$4B valuation, double its Meta-era price

   Butterfly Effect, parent of Manus, said it closed a new round of more than $500 million led by Boyu Capital and IDG Capital, with existing backers Tencent, HongShan and ZhenFund participating, at a valuation of about $4 billion — twice the $2 billion Meta had offered and the largest single round for a China-born agent startup. The funding follows Manus 2.0 on Sept. 28, which swapped its underlying agent execution framework for in-house Cascade, added a 24/7 cloud computer and event-triggered workflows, upgraded the desktop app into Manus Studio for video and game work, and launched Cue, which gives each agent its own email, phone number, wallet and computer. The report says ARR rose from $100 million in December 2025 to a $400–500 million range by end-June 2026, though that surge coincided with the seven months Manus operated inside Meta.

   36氪 人工智能 · 🔥 0
3. Oct 8
   Alibaba said to lead $300M round in AI data startup UniPat at $2.5B valuation

   Foreign media reported in September that Alibaba plans to lead a $300M funding round in AI training and evaluation company UniPat at roughly a $2.5B valuation, with Tencent and Sequoia China reportedly also interested. UniPat was founded by Li Kuan, previously at Alibaba's Tongyi AI Lab working on post-training, data synthesis and reinforcement learning, while CTO Chen Liang worked on Qwen and Moonshot's multimodal teams. The piece also describes a wave of similar startups founded by ex-model-team staff, including Copula Lab (ex-MiniMax) and Zhineng Zhishi (ex-ByteDance Seed), building post-training data, agent environments and benchmarks.

   品玩 实时要闻 · 🔥 0

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