The 50 top-funded AI startups in Asia
Here are the AI companies in Asia that have attracted tons of investors and have the resources to spend on software, talent, and expansion.

Here are the AI companies in Asia that have attracted tons of investors and have the resources to spend on software, talent, and expansion.

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<p>Every developer hates writing READMEs. It's boring, repetitive, and always gets skipped. So I built ReadmeAI — describe your project, AI writes the README instantly.<br> What it does</p> <p>Fill in project name, description, tech stack, features<br> AI generates a complete professional README.md<br> Switch between Raw and Preview tabs to see rendered markdown<br> One click copy</p> <p>Tech Stack</p> <p>Next.js + Tailwind CSS<br> Groq API (openai/gpt-oss-120b)<br> Deployed on Vercel</p> <p>Why
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>It is like pytest but for statistical tests: it ensures no regression of your metrics at a statistical level.</p> <p>It manages tedious things such that seeds, past benchmark results, ...</p> <p>Simple CLI working like pytest but with benchmarks/ directory instead of tests/:</p> <pre><code>pybench # 1st time: samples seeds, saves a baseline, marks NEW pybench # later: reruns on the same seeds, marks PASS / FAIL pybench update # re-baseline after an intended chan
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-06-26/there-s-been-a-subtle-shift-in-the-ai-zeitgeist Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48695731 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
Article URL: https://github.com/tugtool/tugtool Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48695730 Points: 1 # Comments: 1
<p><em>This post is my submission for <a href="https://dev.to/deved/build-apps-with-google-ai-studio">DEV Education Track: Build Apps with Google AI Studio</a>.</em></p> <p>What I Built</p> <p>For this project, I built DevBrand AI, an AI-powered web application that helps developers create a complete personal branding kit in just a few clicks.</p> <p>Instead of manually writing bios, portfolio headlines, README introductions, or designing graphics, users simply provide their GitHub username, rol
Article URL: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4189645/why-spacex-is-the-mcdonalds-of-ai.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48695727 Points: 2 # Comments: 1
<p><strong>TL;DR</strong></p> <ul> <li>An AI agent registry is a centralized catalog of every agent in your organization — what each agent does, what tools it can access, what version is running, who owns it, and how to call it</li> <li>It's to agents what a container registry is to Docker images or what a service mesh is to microservices — the layer that makes distributed components governable</li> <li>We hit the "which agents do we have?" wall at 14 agents across 3 teams. That's when the regis
<p>Most model comparisons ask which model is best. This one starts with a model that never even produced a single result.</p> <p>We tested NVIDIA's open-weight Nemotron family, from the 30B Nano to the 120B Super, on a benchmark of real-world coding tasks: the kind of models an indie developer on a tight budget, or an enterprise cutting inference cost and keeping data in-house, would run.</p> <p>The main finding is that model size is not a dial you turn for a little more quality, it is a thresho
<p>Honestly, deepSeek vs Qwen vs Kimi vs GLM: Which AI API Wins in 2025?</p> <p>I'll be honest — when I first started comparing these four Chinese AI model families, I thought it would be a quick exercise. Spoiler: it wasn't. I spent two weeks running prompts through every endpoint, tracking every dollar, and tallying tokens like a part-time accountant. The good news? I now have very strong opinions about which one deserves your money.</p> <p>Here's the thing: most "AI comparison" posts online a
<p>A Playwright task can pass locally and still fail in a team run.</p> <p>It may open the wrong persistent profile, use the wrong proxy region, assume a session that has already expired, or continue without enough evidence for someone else to debug the run.</p> <p>That is where retries stop helping.</p> <p>For browser automation that runs across real account environments, teams need a release gate.</p> <p>A release gate is a pre-run check that decides whether a task is allowed to continue. It d
They are skipping to "focus more on AI" and to makd M7 "AI powered". Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48695537 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Article URL: https://economist.com/united-states/2026/06/25/democrats-and-republicans-agree-ai-is-scary Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48695504 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
Article URL: https://www.neowin.net/news/ford-execs-say-they-made-a-mistake-when-they-replaced-human-engineers-with-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48695489 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
Article URL: https://hunch-pi.vercel.app/blog/post?slug=ai-ignores-your-architecture Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48695487 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
Article URL: https://openclawlaunch.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48695480 Points: 1 # Comments: 1
Article URL: https://unitkit.pages.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48695466 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Article URL: https://www.corpusiq.io/blog/what-is-ai-intelligence-layer-business-data Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48695444 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
As far as I know we think in a pattern and I may sound childish in the rest of the conversation but it is my first writing of my thoughts. I believe that thinking like humans can be achieved with machines with current tech. We already have the latest LLM models which can generate images and can figure out what those images are about. I had this thought last night as we as humans have knowledge of various fields such as psychology, current affairs, technological advancements and growing need of n
Article URL: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/628396/ai-glasses-are-helping-students-cheat-in-exams-test-obsessed-asia-is-ground-zero Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48695248 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
Article URL: https://github.com/obro79/promptetheus Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48695176 Points: 1 # Comments: 1
how much memory is actually useable by gpu in macbook? as it is shared(os and apps also have to use same memory)? and it is different than dedicated gpu memory. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48695166 Points: 2 # Comments: 1
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 comes in three variants, including its most powerful and its most affordable models yet.

The US government recently gave a directive to OpenAI to delay the launch of it Fable 5 rival GPT 5.6 Sol. This comes after they have already put on hold the global public release of Claude Fable 5. Isn't this just creating an AI monopoly, where the most powerful AI models are restricted to only 'trusted US organization'? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48694991 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
Article URL: https://www.agentideahub.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48694897 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Article URL: https://mail.intellios.ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48694888 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Article URL: https://medium.com/@promptalex53/1c857c6f424a Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48694862 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
For those who are using llms on macbook, Want to understand how macbook is different than dedicated GPU in running those models? and how to know how much a macbook is capable of running a model? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48694802 Points: 7 # Comments: 3
Article URL: https://www.amazon.com/Love-Conquers-Fear-Humanity-Abundance-ebook/dp/B0GX32NPX5 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48694760 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
<p>Fire and Rescue NSW uses thermal imaging and a mobile phone red light to quickly locate men who veered off walking track near Jindabyne</p><ul><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">breaking news email</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></p></li></ul><p>Two hikers who veered off a walking track in Kosciuszko national

Article URL: https://www.semafor.com/article/06/26/2026/bessent-engaged-on-ai-following-warnings-about-fed-payment-rails Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48694728 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
<pre style='white-space:pre-wrap;width:81ex'>Scope agent cron operations to the calling agent (#96883) * Scope agent cron operations to caller * Scope OpenClaw tools MCP cron by session * Address cron scope review feedback * Preserve unscoped cron update retargeting * Move cron caller identity into gateway context * Clarify Gateway restart guidance * Add cron caller identity regression proof</pre>
<pre style='white-space:pre-wrap;width:81ex'>fix(agent-core): ignore truncated tool calls (#97140) * fix(agent-core): ignore truncated tool calls Co-authored-by: Galin Iliev <5711535+galiniliev@users.noreply.github.com> * fix(agent-core): require explicit tool-call terminals --------- Co-authored-by: Galin Iliev <5711535+galiniliev@users.noreply.github.com></pre>
Anthropic's Mythos 5 model access restored to select partners after addressing security concerns.

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Anthropic is restoring select organizations' access to Mythos after getting permission from the US government.

Oracle's capital spending more than doubled to US$56 billion in fiscal 2026 amid AI investments.

Article URL: https://molochinations.substack.com/p/ai-erodes-a-legacy-of-reading Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48694322 Points: 6 # Comments: 3
Xiechuang Data plans to invest 4.686 billion yuan in a 12-month intelligent computing center project.
