Krypton Evening News | MOVA TPEAK Announces Signing of Hundred-Million-Yuan Order; Chairman of South Korea's SK Group Meets with Silicon Valley Giants Intensively to Layout AI Semiconductor Ecosystem; Xiaomi Auto's Cumulative Delivery Volume Exceeds 600,000 Units
Large Companies:
During his business trip to Silicon Valley in the United States, Choi Tae-won, the chairman of South Korea's SK Group, met with the CEOs of several global large technology companies, including Google, Microsoft, Broadcom, and Meta, after meeting with NVIDIA. According to a message from SK Hynix's newsroom on the 13th, since his visit to the United States at the beginning of this month, Chairman Choi has successively met with Huang Renxun, the CEO of NVIDIA; Hock Tan, the CEO of Broadcom; Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft; Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta; and Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google. This move is interpreted as an attempt to cooperate with next-generation AI semiconductors and data centers through SK Group's AI integration solutions, thereby designing and expanding the layout of the AI ecosystem to make it a leader in the artificial intelligence business.
SpaceX's Crew-12 Mission for NASA's Commercial Crew Program Advances Launch Preparations as Planned
It is reported that SpaceX's Crew-12 mission for NASA's Commercial Crew Program is advancing launch preparations as planned.
MOVA TPEAK Announces Signing a Hundred-Million-Yuan Order
36Kr learned that recently, MOVA TPEAK announced that its Clip Pro open-ear clip-on earphones have obtained a hundred-million-yuan intention order. It is understood that based on the positioning of a personal AI assistant terminal, the R & D team has built an AI architecture of "end-cloud collaboration". By combining efficient local preprocessing with cloud intelligent response, the interaction link is optimized, and the overall response speed of the AI assistant can be increased by 10 times, achieving a "question-and-answer" dialogue experience.
On February 13th, Tang Binsen, the founder of Yuanqi Forest, issued an internal letter for the company's ninth anniversary. In the letter, he pointed out that in 2025, the company's profitability continued to improve, and the growth quality and efficiency were significantly better than in previous years. In 2024, the company initially verified the possibility of profitability, and in 2025, it achieved a key breakthrough in high-quality growth. It is understood that Yuanqi Forest's overall performance has maintained double-digit growth for three consecutive years. Looking at the performance of specific product categories, vitamin water has become the single product with the highest growth rate, with a year-on-year increase of 128% in 2025; the iced tea series followed with a 56% increase. The Haozizai series and Alien electrolyte water increased by 36% and 34% respectively.
36Kr learned that according to the data of Qingtianzu, as of February 12th, the platform has received more than 1,000 orders covering the Spring Festival holiday. Based on the comprehensive reservation situation, it is estimated that during the entire Spring Festival period, the order volume of Qingtianzu is expected to exceed 5,000, and the platform's overall GMV is expected to increase by about 80% month-on-month. In addition, on February 13th, against the background of the rapid expansion of demand, Qingtianzu simultaneously launched the national city partner strategy, started the recruitment of national city partners, and officially announced that it will hold the first city partner strategy press conference in Shanghai in March.
Xiaomi Automobile's Cumulative Delivery Volume Has Exceeded 600,000 Units
36Kr learned that Xiaomi Automobile announced its latest delivery progress: since April 3rd, 2024, the cumulative delivery of Xiaomi Automobile has exceeded 600,000 units.
New Products:
36Kr learned that MiniMax M2.5 has been released, which optimizes the model's ability to disassemble complex tasks and the token consumption during the thinking process, enabling it to complete complex Agentic tasks faster. In the SWE-Bench Verified test, M2.5 completed tasks 37% faster than the previous version, M2.1. At a rate of outputting 100 tokens per second, it costs 1 US dollar to work continuously for one hour, while at a rate of outputting 50 tokens per second, it costs 0.3 US dollars. That is to say, 10,000 US dollars can allow 4 Agents to work continuously for one year.
Investment and Financing:
German Company Stark Valued at Over 1 Billion Euros in a Round of Financing
According to media reports on Friday, German drone manufacturing startup Stark Defence received a new round of financing from investors several weeks ago, and the company's overall valuation has risen to over 1 billion euros (1.2 billion US dollars). The magazine did not disclose the source of the information and said that the Founders Fund under Peter Thiel invested tens of millions of euros, and European investors also participated in this round of financing.
"Lanrui Optoelectronics" Completes Hundreds of Millions of Yuan in Series C Financing
Recently, domestic electrochromic enterprise "Lanrui Optoelectronics" completed hundreds of millions of yuan in Series C financing. This round of financing was led by Guangzhou Yuexiu Industrial Investment Fund Management Co., Ltd., and jointly funded by Zhejiang Zhejian Industrial Investment Development Co., Ltd., Ningbo Haishu Industrial Investment Development Co., Ltd., Changzhou Government Investment Fund Management Co., Ltd., etc. Changzhou Financial Holding continued to increase its investment. The funds from this round of financing will be used for the construction of the production base in Changzhou and the upgrade and iteration of the R & D center in Ningbo to fully ensure the smooth implementation and efficient delivery of orders for automotive-grade and consumer electronics diaphragm products, and to lay a solid foundation for the company's large-scale development.
Today's Views:
New York Fed Report: US Consumers and Businesses Bear Nearly 90% of Trump's Tariff Costs
On February 12th local time, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York released a report saying that US consumers and businesses bore most of the costs of the tariffs imposed by the Trump administration, accounting for about 90%, which is in contrast to the government's previous claim that "foreign countries bear the tariffs". The report's assessment shows that the average US tariff level rose from 2.6% to 13% last year. Among them, from January to August, the United States bore 94% of the tariff impact; from September to October, it was 92%; and in November, it was 86%. The study pointed out that the experience during Trump's first term showed that foreign exporters did not significantly reduce prices, and the tariff costs were almost "100% passed on to US import prices".
Other Noteworthy News:
Portuguese Parliament Passes Bill to Restrict Social Media Use by Minors Under 16
The Portuguese parliament passed a bill on the 12th stipulating that minors under 16 in Portugal will not be able to freely access social media platforms and must obtain explicit parental authorization and pass the official verification process before they can use them.
Learned from the State Administration for Market Regulation, in order to support and guide Internet platform operators to effectively prevent anti - monopoly compliance risks and promote the innovation and healthy development of the platform economy, the "Anti - monopoly Compliance Guidelines for Internet Platforms" were released today. The "Guidelines" mainly stipulate four types of monopoly risks, including monopoly agreements, abuse of market dominance, concentration of undertakings, and abuse of administrative power to exclude and restrict competition. It draws a clear "red line" for platform operators. The "Guidelines" transform a series of core provisions of the "Anti - monopoly Law of the People's Republic of China" into specific and identifiable behavioral boundaries. According to the characteristics, business models, and competition laws of the platform economy industry, the guidelines propose new monopoly risks in eight scenarios, including: algorithmic collusion between platforms, organizing and helping operators within the platform to reach monopoly agreements, unfair high prices on platforms, selling below cost on platforms, blocking and shielding, "choose - one - from - two" behavior, "lowest price across the network", and platform differential treatment, providing highly operational guidance suggestions for platform operators to strengthen anti - monopoly compliance management.