Beijing is investing billions into a national AI fund and its broader AI+ initiative to embed artificial intelligence across the entire economy. Backed by strong state support, domestic chip production, and lower manufacturing costs, China can scale AI solutions rapidly and analysts say it s on track to surpass the U.S. in the race for AI dominance. (IMO, it already happened.)
And one of the examples is these 2 news items I read today: 1) Alibaba unveils Qwen3.5 as China s chatbot race shifts to AI agents
2) and this one is even more important: Alibaba has launched RynnBrain, an open-source AI model designed to power robots that can see, think, and act in real-world environments.
Product Hunt unveiled a list of 18 dev-first products nominated for the Golden Kitty Award 2023 in the Developer Tools category. I analyzed the following data to identify some trends:
Anyone here building something around sustainability? I ve been browsing for a while and haven t seen many products tackling climate change or other global challenges.
We won t pretend that the world isn t tense, because relations between countries are increasingly strained. (Coming from a country that never had technological or numerical superiority, we ve mostly become just part of the regime.)
But not everyone is on the same page, and countries are investing in defence.
By little tool, I don't mean it took a small amount of effort, I mean it does one day-to-day, small task. For me it's probably @Xnapper . It allows me to take beautiful screenshots surrounded by stunning backgrounds in literally a few seconds, where as I used to spend time chucking my screenshots into Figma and playing with the padding to make them look nice. I can't even guess how much time this has saved me
I've been having a lot of fun exploring AI and using tools like @Cursor, @bolt.new, @Lovable, and @Warp to learn how to build and make some apps for myself! I'm also noticing a tremendous amount of growth in folks creating their own apps using these same tools which has me wondering... if a company wanted to acquire someone's app or tool that was built via vibe coding, would it matter how it was built? Does the method of how it was built impact the valuation? In my idealistic eyes, I'd like to think it doesn't. As an acquisition is often much more than just the tech but also the user base, brand, and even team behind the product. If anything I think that acquiring a product that has been "vibe coded" and putting them into capable engineering hands would only enhance the product...or a least make the code base cleaner. I also believe that talent that is able to create stunning products with AI is currently a small percentage of folks, and that companies should be investing in acquiring that talent (either independently or via product acquisition) so that they can stay ahead in innovation while learning how to implement AI tools more efficiently in their orgs. Very curious to hear what you all think!
I m currently building a platform focused on helping people turn hardware ideas into actual working prototypes (connecting them with engineers, fabricators, etc).
But I ve hit a wall I didn t expect.
I m finding it surprisingly hard to locate people who are actively trying to build physical products. Not people interested in hardware, but people who are actually in the process and need help.
