🧋 Hello human and artificial friends,

Japan has given us another headline that sounds like a Black Mirror side quest: a man in Wakayama used AI to identify wild mushrooms.

🍄 He got the reply “edible,” grilled them, and thirty minutes later, the vomiting began. A lab later confirmed they were tsukiyotake, a poisonous species often mistaken for shiitake.

The good news is he has fully recovered. But he proved one old saying right: all mushrooms are edible, some only once.

Asia is where AI moves fastest. New products, new habits, new ways of using tech show up every week. Most disappear, but some quietly change how people shop, learn, travel, or create. We pick those ideas so you can study them and build your own version.

When we first heard about NemoVideo, we had the same reaction you probably have right now.
“Ah, great… another AI video generator.” 🥱
We’ve all seen those: Make me a shark in a pineapple costume playing piano in the Tokyo subway.

But then one detail stopped us.
NemoVideo just raised almost 10 million USD before even launching publicly.
That doesn’t happen for another gimmicky generator.

So we took a closer look and realized this one is doing something very different. 👇🏻

✅ Creators can build their own editing agents

A creator can store everything that makes their videos “theirs”: editing rhythm, transitions, text structure, pacing, hook style, cut logic.
The result is an agent that automatically produces videos in the creator’s own style.

✅ Other creators can buy and use these agents

Think of Canva templates, just ten times more powerful. You upload text, clips, images or one reference video. The agent does about 80 percent of the work and gives you a ready first cut.

✅ It is a community, not just a tool

This is the part CapCut never built. Nemo is creating a marketplace where creators can: sell their agents, earn from their style, and help each other scale.

✅ It is built for high-volume creators

Especially for people who need to publish a lot: E-commerce creators, UGC freelancers, TikTok ads editors, social video producers. Creators who used to manage three videos a day can now reach ten or more.

💰 Agent libraries for niches: Pick one vertical where editing speed matters: fitness coaches, estate agents, beauty brands, restaurant owners. Study their TikTok style for one week and turn it into a specialised agent. These niches are big enough to pay and small enough to dominate fast.

💰 Create a “creator onboarding” service: Most creators have no time to build their own agents. You can do it for them. Offer a package: analyse 30 of their best videos, extract their style, and deliver a ready-to-sell agent they can list on the marketplace. This is a business you can start tomorrow.

Editing has always been the slowest part of content creation.
Nemo turns personal editing habits into something that works on its own.
And once creators can clone their workflow, they can scale far beyond their own time.

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🤖 DeepSeek steps directly into Google and OpenAI territory: China’s open model lab has released V3.2 Speciale and says it now matches Google’s Gemini 3 Pro on reasoning tasks. The model also reached gold level on the International Mathematical Olympiad benchmark, a score previously seen only in internal US systems. Despite limited access to high-end chips, DeepSeek says it achieved this with far fewer training FLOPs.

🤝 HSBC teams up with Mistral to speed up its AI rollout: HSBC has signed a multi-year deal with French start-up Mistral to bring its generative AI models into the bank’s internal systems. The tools will support everything from financial analysis and multilingual translation to risk checks and client communication. HSBC says tasks that usually take hours, like parsing document-heavy credit deals, can drop to minutes.

🤖 Japanese robots are moving to the Midwest before the humans do: Yaskawa Electric is investing about 180 million dollars into a new robot factory in Wisconsin, with production targeted for fiscal 2028. The plant will build AI-equipped industrial robots powered by Nvidia chips that can plan and execute tasks independently. Yaskawa wants the site to bundle robot assembly, motors, and key components, and to work closely with US-based AI robotics startups.

China’s top universities, including Shanghai Jiao Tong and Zhejiang, are launching undergraduate majors in embodied intelligence to feed the country’s fast-growing robotics sector.

Why now

The programs are part of a national push to fast-track “urgently needed” disciplines.
Traditional AI and engineering tracks rarely integrate perception, control, mechanics, data, safety and deployment.

What you actually learn

Background

China’s robotics market is coming off a hype peak. A major humanoid robotics index rose about 60% into October, then fell roughly 20% after regulators warned about overcrowding and look-alike products.

The signal to founders and students is clear: execution, safety, and unit economics matter more than viral demos. These new programs aim to produce talent that can deliver exactly that.

That’s how rich a couple in Guangdong got after their AI supply-chain company surged 530% this year.

🖨️ The hidden backbone of AI: Their company Victory Giant makes the circuit boards that Nvidia’s AI chips run on. Without these PCBs, GPU clusters simply wouldn’t exist. Its stock became the best performer in the MSCI Asia-Pacific index.

🚀 From soldier to billionaire: Founder Chen Tao once served in China’s army, later sold PCBs on a factory floor, and launched Victory Giant in 2003. He and his wife still own 27% of the company, which is now worth $9.1 billion.

Watch: The real money in the AI gold rush is increasingly flowing to the “boring” layers of the stack like circuit boards, substrates, and cooling. Whoever controls the bottlenecks, gains the profits.

🐳 DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale is DeepSeek’s top model, built for elite reasoning, strong enough to beat GPT 5 in key tests and solve Olympiad-level maths problems.

🎤 Supertone Play lets anyone create multilingual, emotion-rich AI voices or even clone their own voice in minutes, so creators can sound exactly how they imagine without needing studio skills.

📀 Ant Group’s new LingGuang assistant can turn a simple text prompt into a working mini app in about thirty seconds, letting anyone build games, tools or planners without touching code.

🌱 AI-powered urban farms: Seoul-based FutureConnect raised a $6M Series A to drop its NanoFarm™ modules into unused city spaces and let its livOS™ “AI farmer” decide what to grow and when.

🧠 Redrob slashes AI costs: The Korean startup raised $10M Series A to offer text-AI tools for writing, research, sales and HR at a much lower price than OpenAI, giving students in India free access to grow future enterprise users.

⚡️ AI data “plumbing”: The Singaporean startup LightSpeed Photonics raised $6.5M pre-Series A to build laser-based data cables that move AI data much faster using far less electricity, helping AI servers save power and cut costs.

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This guy created a “fake” Disney movie with AI to propose to his girlfriend.