Beijing is investing billions into a national AI fund and its broader AI+ initiative to embed artificial intelligence across the entire economy. Backed by strong state support, domestic chip production, and lower manufacturing costs, China can scale AI solutions rapidly and analysts say it s on track to surpass the U.S. in the race for AI dominance. (IMO, it already happened.)
And one of the examples is these 2 news items I read today: 1) Alibaba unveils Qwen3.5 as China s chatbot race shifts to AI agents
2) and this one is even more important: Alibaba has launched RynnBrain, an open-source AI model designed to power robots that can see, think, and act in real-world environments.
In business, we hate "unplanned downtime." We invest in predictive maintenance for our machinery. But when it comes to our most important asset, our people, we rely on a reactive system.
We wait for the sick note. By then, the cost is already incurred.
The "Silent Crash" is the phase where employees are physically present but mentally disengaged due to a mismatch in energy and pressure. In HR-terms: Presenteeism.
Research shows that almost 90% of health-related costs come from this invisible drain.
Now more than ever, when you look at new products launching on Product Hunt or anywhere else online, the conversation is dominated by one topic: virality.
There is an endless stream of tools and hacks promising to make your content "explode." It often feels like "going viral" has become the default KPI for every modern business. If you aren't trending, are you even growing?
But is going viral a real, effective marketing strategy?
I've built my product around traditional SaaS pricing (monthly tiers), but I m starting to wonder if that model is getting outdated, especially with more AI-powered and compute-heavy tools entering the market. That shift requires real architectural changes, instrumentation, metering, billing logic, and UI changes, not just pricing tweaks. It s something I m starting to seriously think about for my own product.
In particular, AI usage has real COGs (every prompt costs money), and I m seeing more platforms experimenting with usage-based models, or hybrids like SaaS base + usage + overage.
For those of you building AI or compute-intensive tools:
This community helped turn a scrappy weekend project into something used by 25,000+ people from all around the world. So it felt right to share this here first:
On Jan 31, we are launching Pretty Prompt 1.0 right here on Product Hunt.
Hey builders! It was amazing collaborating last year and exploring AI tools for work productivity through our launch of the Portals platform. Through that experience, we talked to power users and experimented with the latest technology for AI agents, tool calling, and RAG and vector databases. Based on those learnings, we've been working hard to build the next rendition of a powerful agent. Many users are looking for solutions to build and manage their technical products and digital businesses, and no-code tools and vibe coding are the biggest trends in the AI scene right now.
Today we're launching Subterranean, an AI no-code platform for building complete apps focused on reliability, design, and a network of built-in systems to make every part of product development capable of being outsourced to agents. Check out our launch here! https://www.producthunt.com/prod...
Yesterday, I had an unpleasant experience. For a few minutes, I lost my LinkedIn community of several thousand people (TL;DR: I was falsely accused of using suspicious software).
Fortunately, I got my account back but it was a strong reminder that we don t own platforms, nor our profiles on them.
