Southeast Asia's physical AI push: commercial robots over humanoids
Tech in Asia maps SEA's physical AI startup ecosystem - the region's defining choice is to bet on commercial and industrial robots, not humanoids.
27/07/2026 à 10h17 8 8
Washington menace de sanctionner les startups IA chinoises après la sortie de Moonshot
Nikkei Asia rapporte des menaces de sanctions US visant les startups IA chinoises après la release Moonshot - le contrôle d'accès devient sanction primaire.
23/07/2026 à 07h45 11 11
Apple explores AI chip startup acquisitions: the vertical integration playbook turns to inference silicon
Apple is exploring acquisitions of AI chip startups, sources tell Tech in Asia. The reading: Apple is preparing an inference-silicon path that does not run through Nvidia.
16/07/2026 à 08h48 17 8
Elevation Capital lève $500M pour parier sur les startups IA indiennes
Le VC indien Elevation Capital lance un fonds de $500M concentré sur les startups IA en seed et série A - la thèse « AI-native > SaaS + wrapper » devient actionable capital-side sur le marché domestique.
14/07/2026 à 15h44 11 8
la nouvelle génération de licornes en Inde reconstruit avant de scaler
Sur Inc42, un dossier documente une bascule : les fondateurs de licornes indiennes reconstruisent leur stack en AI-native plutôt que d'ajouter une couche IA par-dessus. Décision architecturale, pas cosmétique.
12/07/2026 à 11h15 4 7
Quantum's quiet capital wave: Oratomic's $300m Series A and Singapore's QAI cohort
Arch and Khosla just led a $300m Series A into quantum startup Oratomic - a serious sum for pre-utility hardware. In parallel, QAI Ventures picked its first four Singapore quantum cohort startups. The 2026-2028 quantum thesis isn't gate count. It's who owns the tooling layer.
11/07/2026 à 11h41 11 8
Les data centers dans l'espace : machine à hype, pas machine à calculer
Plusieurs startups annoncent l'IA en orbite basse. IEEE Spectrum a fait les comptes - c'est du marketing, pas de l'infra.
11/07/2026 à 10h44 9 8
OneCLI (YC S26) ships an OSS sandboxed agent harness - the team-scale answer to Claude Code
A Launch HN post from a Y Combinator S26 startup positions itself as "personal Claude Code, but with enterprise guardrails" - the harness-ops market keeps getting more crowded.
19/08/2026 à 22h31 11 15
China's AI startup shuffle: Tencent circles Manus, Moonshot goes state-backed, MiniMax raises $2bn
Three data points on the same afternoon: Tencent in talks to become Manus' biggest shareholder, Moonshot AI takes state-backed money, and MiniMax seeks $2bn. The Chinese AI startup landscape is consolidating around big-money anchors - the era of independence is closing.
11/07/2026 à 11h41 6 7