Dutch-Swiss Startup Cradle Raises $240 Million to Assist Scientists in AI Protein Design


The AI application Claude by Anthropic has surpassed ChatGPT to top the US App Store free charts. Its ranking has been steadily rising since early February, and it has recently experienced explosive growth, jumping from sixth place to the top in just four days. Official data shows that its daily active registered users have continuously set new historical highs, and the number of free users has significantly expanded since January.
OpenAI's ChatGPT hits 900M weekly active users, nearing 1B, with over 50M paid users. Strong growth in early 2026 is expected to set new records, driving product improvements in speed and reliability.....
Meizu halts domestic smartphone hardware R&D due to rising component costs, shifting focus to AI software for strategic transition.....
AI startup Jieyu Star plans to go public in Hong Kong, aiming to raise about 500 million US dollars, and could list as early as this year. Its core team has strong background and possesses "trillion-parameter" large model technology capabilities, and is expected to become one of the first listed large model companies in China.
Goldman pointed out that despite the significant investment by American companies in AI, the contribution of AI to the growth of US GDP in 2025 is almost zero. The reason is that a large amount of AI hardware relies on imports, and the related capital expenditures are offset by the import item in GDP accounting, thus not directly driving domestic output.