Manus raises $500M+, Kuaishou's Kling AI lines up $1B Hong Kong IPO
创业邦 · wechat · 2026-10-11
This week's Going Global roundup (Oct 4–10) key items:
- Manus parent Butterfly Effect closed a $500M+ round led by Boyu Capital and IDG, with Tencent, Sequoia China and ZhenFund participating.
- TypeSafe AI's decision model Jev went viral weeks after launch, raising $870M led by a16z at a $7.5B valuation with just 20 employees, processing trillions of tokens daily.
- Kuaishou's Kling AI picked CICC, Goldman Sachs and UBS for a Hong Kong IPO targeting $1B+.
- TikTok launched an AI shopping assistant and one-click Buy Direct checkout with Salesforce, Shopify and Stripe.
- Meta restricted ByteDance ads in 7 countries and announced its Muse agent is coming to smart glasses, running on a persistent cloud Linux VM that writes code, spawns sub-agents and handles scheduled tasks.
- Shopify launched conversational AI site builder Canvas and reportedly bought Shop.com for $100M, possibly the largest domain sale ever.
- Also: Pony.ai and Uber bringing Gen-7 Robotaxis to London; Huawei–Qualcomm multi-year cross-license deal; OpenAI poached a second SpaceX sales exec as EMEA VP; Starbucks explored acquiring Chipotle ($39B market cap).
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