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AI & Enterprise
Big Tech, startups heat up early race for personal AI agents
Competition is intensifying in personal AI agents for individual users, with Meta launching its Muse assistant app for Mac. Startups are also moving faster, including Instinct developer Sphere Street Technology seeking $1 billion in funding at a $10 billion valuation, and Chinese startup Manus pursuing $500 million at a $4 billion valuation. The article also rounds up moves by Korean and overseas companies in AI, enterprise agents, cloud security certification and advertising tests in ChatGPT.
AI & Enterprise
China AI startup Naive AI bets on mid and post-training to compete in LLMs
Chinese AI model startup Naive AI, founded in February by a Tsinghua University professor, has been valued at more than $1.4 billion and raised $400 million from Tencent and others in three funding rounds, The Information reported. Based in Beijing, it plans to release its first large language model this month as an open-weight model. The company is led by professor Dai Zhipeng and is focusing on improving model performance through mid-training and post-training techniques.
Industry
AI makes up 95 percent of China\'s short-form dramas, raising job pressure on actors and crews
AI is rapidly replacing actors and production staff in China’s short-form content market, with most popular Douyin animations and dramas now AI-made and production times cut to 1 to 2 days. DataEye counted 89 AI-made titles among Douyin’s top 100 in May 2026, while more than 95 percent of short-form dramas released in China in the first quarter were AI-generated. Industry workers report fewer jobs and lower pay as AI replicas emerge.
