Chinese social media Xiaohongxu moves closer to IPO as profits surge in 2024, sources say

Chinese social media Xiaohongxu moves closer to IPO as profits surge in 2024, sources say

Social media platform Xiaohongshu, known as China’s Instagram, has the wind at its back in its pursuit of an initial public offering in Hong Kong, as its commercialisation efforts pay off, according to sources briefed on the matter. The Shanghai-based company, which is influential among young Chinese women with its user-generated lifestyle content, has selected … Read more

Chinese start-up Moonshot AI raises US$1 billion in funding round led by Alibaba and VC HongShan amid strong interest for OpenAI-type firms

Chinese start-up Moonshot AI raises US billion in funding round led by Alibaba and VC HongShan amid strong interest for OpenAI-type firms

The start-up in October launched smart chatbot Kimi Chat, built on its self-developed Moonshot large language model (LLM), which can process as many as 200,000 Chinese characters in a context window – referring to the swathe of text that an AI model can process during conversation with users. A screenshot of smart chatbot Kimi Chat. … Read more