AI Innovation & Research

If an AI startup went from product launch to a multi-billion dollar acquisition by a Big Tech titan in just nine months, would you call it a myth or a miracle? As 2025 draws to a close, Silicon Valley has witnessed exactly that. In a move that sent shockwaves through the industry, Meta  (formerly Facebook) announced the lightning-fast acquisition of Manus , the general-purpose AI Agent powerhouse. This isn't just Meta’s third-largest acquisition in history—following WhatsApp

Prologue: The Memory Bottleneck In the race for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), Silicon Valley has traditionally been obsessed with compute —the sheer brute force of reasoning. But in Beijing, a rising star named Moonshot AI  identified a different, more human bottleneck: Memory. As founder Yang Zhilin famously posed: "If an AI cannot remember an entire book, how can it truly understand and reason about a complex world?" While competitors were busy building flashy avat

The Outsider Advantage: Why DeepSeek is Rewriting the AI Rulebook In the high-stakes, multi-billion-dollar race dominated by global AI giants, a name from China is quietly changing the game: DeepSeek . This isn't just a story about a technical marvel; it's the legend of a former quant trading  prodigy who crossed over to become an AI industry disruptor. While most companies are locked in a battle of parameter scale, DeepSeek has carved out a unique path, driven by an obsessiv