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Evan Xie

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According to a new report from The Information, a number of American investors have indirectly financed Chinese AI startups, some of which have set the goal of becoming China’s answer to OpenAI. The piece by journalist Juro Osawa lists Chinese VC firms Sequoia Capital China, Matrix Partners China, Qiming Venture Partners, and Hillhouse Capital Management among the companies putting serious funds into local AI startups.

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As early investors in buzzy startups like Lyft, SpaceX, Pinterest and Ring, Courtney and Carter Reum have gained a reputation as successful venture investors. Now they are devoting some of their attention and dollars to a decidedly lower tech investment: trading cards. After dabbling in cards as a hobby since they were kids growing up in the Midwest, the brothers want to use what they have learned as VCs to start a fund to procure undervalued cards they hope will someday score big returns.

"Applying that kind of rigor to something that has usually been done by young kids or emotion...I think that's how you get unfair advantages and outlier results," explained Courtney Reum. "I don't want to just dabble a couple hours a week. I want to be with people who really want to actually do this in an analytical way."

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