AI Productivity Platform Kindo Raises $7 Million in Funding


Manifold Space, founded by Wu Wei, a former executive from SenseTime, recently completed a funding round worth hundreds of millions of yuan. The investors include China National New Capital Fund, Yifeng Capital under Temasek, Beijing Automotive Industrial Investment, and Xineng Venture Capital. Existing shareholders also made additional investments. The company has completed six funding rounds within just one year of its establishment, with a total amount of nearly 1 billion yuan, rapidly rising to the forefront of the industry.
Manifold AI, a one-year-old world-model startup, has secured hundreds of millions of yuan in funding from new investors including China Reform Fund, InnoVen Capital, BAIC Capital, and Core Energy Venture Capital, while four existing shareholders oversubscribed. Its rapid growth in the AI race has earned strong capital recognition.....
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek plans to conduct its first large-scale financing round, aiming to raise about 50 billion yuan (approximately 7.4 billion US dollars), with an estimated valuation of 350 to 400 billion yuan after the funding. The company has gained global attention with its V3 and R1 models, changing the perception of China's capabilities in large model development.
Artificial intelligence programming startup Cognition completed a funding round exceeding $1 billion on May 27, 2026, with a pre-money valuation of $25 billion, led by Lux Capital and General Catalyst. Compared to its valuation of $10.2 billion during its $400 million funding in September 2025, its value has more than doubled. Its core product is autonomous AI software engineering.
The AI company Anthropic is planning to raise $3 billion in funding, with a pre-money valuation of $90 billion, reflecting strong market confidence in its future prospects. Negotiations are progressing quickly, and the deal is expected to be completed as early as月底, but specific terms of the agreement are still under discussion and have not been finalized yet.