AI News Flash: Rogo, a fintech AI startup co-founded in late 2021 by Princeton alumni Gabriel Stengel, John Willett, and Tumas Rackaitis, automates the most time-consuming daily work of Wall Street analysts — spreadsheet modeling, industry research, and investment banking pitch decks. All three founders came from J.P. Morgan or Lazard before starting the company.
AI News Brief: Chinese AI smart glasses brand Rokid announced it has landed investment from an affiliate of Japanese auto giant Toyota, confirmed personally by Rokid CEO Zhu Mingming. This investment marks an important step in Rokid’s push to expand its presence in the Japanese market, coming right after the company completed a record-breaking crowdfunding campaign in Japan. Zhu Mingming said that although Japan’s population is smaller than the US or Europe, it’s a key market for Rokid because…
AI news brief: US AI startup TinyFish announced its entry into the Japanese market, launching an AI agent platform that scrapes and analyzes live web data in real time. The platform’s core differentiator is solving a key limitation of current large language models (LLMs) — mainstream foundation models rely on historical training data and can’t perceive real-time changes in the outside world. TinyFish’s AI agent doesn’t replace reasoning models — it acts as a supplementary layer…
AI News Flash: Tencent has quietly opened up deep WeChat integration access to several smartphone makers, letting some Huawei, Honor, Xiaomi, OPPO, and vivo users control WeChat functions directly through their phones’ built-in voice assistants using natural language commands, including sending messages and initiating voice or video calls. This marks the first major loosening of WeChat’s AI phone integration, and it comes against the backdrop of the earlier ByteDance AI phone backlash.