On January 27th, Shaw, founder of ai16z, commented on big models such as DeepSeek. He pointed out that the AI field is experiencing an open-source revolution, with major AI labs from Google, OpenAI, Claude to today's DeepSeek continuously achieving breakthroughs in benchmarks and capabilities. Shaw particularly emphasizes that open-source models like DeepSeek are a major boon for the industry as they help developers scale AI applications to millions of users at a lower cost. As AI models become ...
Ranger Labs announced a $1.90 million funding round at a $30 million valuation, with participation from Asymmetric, Big Brain Holdings, RISE Capital and Anagram and RockawayX. Ranger Labs has developed Ranger Protocol, a Solana-based crypto derivatives trading protocol, which is currently planning to add new product lines that will allow clients to use artificial intelligence to assist trading strategies.
Crypto wallet Phantom announced a $150 million Series C funding round at a $3 billion valuation, led by Sequoia Capital and Paradigm, with participation from a16z and Variant. Phantom says it has 15 million monthly active user addresses and $25 billion in self-custody assets.
On January 16, Citi released a report that the Hang Seng Index's forecast for earnings growth per share this year has been reduced to 5.1%, compared with 9.4% in January last year and 6.8% in August last year. MSCI China's earnings growth forecast also fell to 9%, down from 14.2% a year ago. The current valuation of Hong Kong stocks gives the Hang Seng Index a price-to-earnings ratio of 8.8 times the forecast price-to-earnings ratio for the coming year, or 1 times the price-to-book ratio, which ...
Privasea, a Confidential AI project, completed its Series A financing round at a valuation of $180 million, with a total of $15 million in three rounds. Investors include GSR, Amber and Echo, and early-stage investors include Binance Labs, OKX Ventures, Nomura's Laser Digital and Gate Labs. Privasea has released the DeepSea testnet beta on January 6. The financing will be used to accelerate the deployment of the main network DeepSea and the research and development of related intelligent agents,...
South Korea's Ministry of Personnel Management has asked all government entities to reassess the implementation of restrictions on cryptocurrency holdings by government officials. Agencies must review their compliance and submit reports by Jan. 31. The ministry specifically emphasized that not only institutions dealing with virtual asset policies, drafting and enforcing regulations, but also those involved in promoting economic and industrial policies may be subject to restrictions on access to ...
BEX: Establish an information disclosure evaluation system for listed companies. In terms of evaluation methods, four evaluation grades of A, B, C, and D are set up, and points are added or subtracted on the basis of unified benchmark points for initial rating. Then the evaluation results are revised through the "negative list" to enhance the effectiveness of the evaluation.
Fidelity raised the valuation of X Holdings stock by 32.37% in October, the company's largest monthly adjustment since backing the Elon Musk acquisition in 2022. However, the valuation is still down nearly 72% from Musk's original purchase price of $44 billion. xAI also has ties to X Holdings through equity. Fidelity participated in xAI's $6 billion Series B funding round. It increased the value of those shares by about 70% in October, likely affecting its approach to valuing X Holdings.
CryptoQuant said on the X platform that its maximum price target is $146,000 based on Bitcoin's Realized Price Valuation. This price range has historically marked cycle tops, such as April-May 2021. Note: Realized Price Valuation is an important metric used to evaluate the value of cryptocurrencies, especially bitcoins. It reflects the "real cost" of all bitcoins in the market by calculating the price of each bitcoin when it was last traded.
On November 12th, a video conference on the reform and supervision of local state-owned enterprises was held on the 12th. Zhang Guoqing, a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, attended and delivered a speech. He pointed out that it is necessary to adhere to the problem orientation, strengthen the penetrating supervision covering all levels of secondary subsidiaries, and solve the outstanding problems restricting the high-quality devel...
The Ethereum Foundation says it is launching the first short-term Pectra testnet, Mekong, after a scoping assessment of the Pectra fork, a successful interoperability event, and four development networks. The Mekong testnet contains all the EIP proposals that will be used for the Ethereum Pectra fork. These changes include user experience (UX) improvements via EIP-7702, staking changes via EIP-7251, deposit and exit mechanism changes via EIP-6110/EIP-7002, and more.
"In this cycle, relative valuations are more effective in Meme coins than in VC coins, because people who own Meme coins will sell their positions and buy other Meme coins," Su Zhu wrote on XX. However, even if one L2 is cheaper than the other, people who sell the more expensive L2 don't buy the cheaper L2, they just sell it for dollars. "
OpenAI says it has launched a new benchmark called SIMPLEQA to evaluate the factuality of language models and made it open-source.
Artificial intelligence (AI) startup Sierra raised $175 million at a $4.50 billion valuation, led by Greenokas Capital.
[List of domestic brokerage agencies' evaluation of the Ministry of Finance's press conference] 1. CITIC Securities: Boosting market expectations, bonds will be the focus of this round of fiscal policy. 2. Great Wall Securities: In the next two or three years, localized bonds will still be the focus, and the sustainability of this round of market prices is still worth looking forward to. 3. Dongfang Jincheng: Judging that the incremental scale of fiscal policy in this package of incremental poli...