Wenge Invests in Cherrypicks to Jointly Drive China’s AI Go-Global Strategy and Elevate Hong Kong’s AI Ecosystem

NetDragon Websoft Holdings Limited (“NetDragon” or the “Company”, Hong Kong Stock Code: 777), a global leader in building internet communities, today announced that NetDragon and its subsidiary Cherrypicks, together with Zhongke WengAI, hosted the launch ceremony for the strategic alliance titled “Leading the future with AI & mobility: NetDragon’s Cherrypicks & Zhongke WengAI’s Strategic Alliance.” The alliance aims to accelerate innovative AI applications across enterprise and education, bring China’s core AI technologies to global markets led by a Hong Kong enterprise, and inject momentum into Hong Kong’s AI ecosystem.

Cherrypicks and Zhongke WengAI will engage in an exclusive collaboration outside Mainland China to promote AI services. Under the partnership, Cherrypicks will serve as Wenge’s sole overseas commercialization and go-to-market platform. Wenge is investing in Cherrypicks and will contribute AI technology resources to jointly develop and deploy products and solutions for overseas markets across public services, finance, healthcare, and commercial sectors. Dr. Waley Wang, Chairman of Zhongke WengAI, will join the Board of Directors of Cherrypicks to align strategic direction and the technology roadmap, driving efficient execution of joint projects.

Dr. Simon Leung, Vice Chairman of NetDragon, said: “This three-party collaboration exemplifies the convergence of China’s AI ‘go-global’ strategy with Hong Kong’s innovation strengths. As a bridge between the Mainland and international markets, Cherrypicks will leverage synergies to bring leading AI technologies such as the ‘YaYi’ large language model to Hong Kong and overseas, powering smart city development and industry upgrades, and further cementing Hong Kong’s position as an international innovation hub.”

Dr. Waley Wang, Chairman and Founder of Zhongke WengAI, said: “We attach great importance to our collaboration with Cherrypicks under NetDragon. As an international gateway for innovation with a multilingual environment, Hong Kong is strategically significant for Wenge’s overseas expansion. Cherrypicks’ professional capabilities and local ecosystem network will strongly support the rollout of our AI technologies and products in global markets. We look forward to jointly enabling industry transformation with AI and delivering higher-quality intelligent services for customers worldwide.”

Mr. Kenny Chien, CEO of Cherrypicks, said: “We are honored to partner with Zhongke WengAI to bring China’s leading AI technologies and innovations to the world. By combining our strengths in AI deployment, mobile technologies, and cross-border services, we will develop intelligent products tailored to local and international needs, foster a healthy AI ecosystem in Hong Kong, and help enterprises seize new opportunities in the intelligent era.”

Zhongke WengAI is widely recognized as a technology leader in Mainland China’s AI sector. Its self-developed “YaYi” large language model and AI Scientist agent ranked first across two global AI agent benchmarks in 2025. Wenge’s products deliver industry-leading performance in multimodal data processing, reasoning and decision-making, and semantic understanding, and are broadly applied in finance, healthcare, and scientific research, serving nearly one thousand organizations with intelligent solutions. Incubated by the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wenge continues to collaborate with universities and technology enterprises at home and abroad to advance AI-driven industrial innovation.

At the launch event, Wenge introduced its latest research achievement, the YaYi AI-Scientist platform for scientific research, and showcased international flagship products and technologies. Notably, the social listening product Wisky, powered by the YaYi model and cross-modal retrieval, enables hot-topic trend analysis, cross-modal information retrieval across the web, intelligent report generation, a radar engine, and dashboard analytics. Wisky is available via API, on-premises deployment, SaaS, and mobile experiences, helping enterprises stay on top of global dynamics and sharpen competitive edge in the era of mobile intelligence.

Wenge also unveiled the international version of Yoya, a multimodal (audio/video) content creation tool built on 33 multimodal capabilities—including video segmentation, image and video generation, video cataloging, digital humans/avatars, speech synthesis, and cross-modal retrieval. Yoya supports marketing, branding, and events with agent-driven features such as one-click video creation from raw assets, multilingual video translation, image style transfer, and AI voice cloning. Optimized for mobile, Yoya enables users in Hong Kong and worldwide to create high-quality multimedia content on their phones and accelerates the adoption of AI mobile intelligence in creative industries.

Wenge also introduced a one-stop Agent development toolkit, a zero-code, enterprise-grade platform to address deployment challenges across industries. With this toolkit, users can rapidly build custom AI agents and leverage mobile technologies for real-time deployment, further strengthening Hong Kong’s position as a hub for AI mobile intelligence.

Through the partnership with Cherrypicks, Wenge will combine strengths to build cutting-edge AI products for mobile scenarios—for example, integrating Wisky’s social listening with Yoya’s content creation—to develop mobile intelligent solutions tailored to Hong Kong’s multilingual and cross-border needs, serving a broader international client base.

About NetDragon Websoft Holdings Limited

NetDragon Websoft Holdings Limited (HKSE: 0777) is a global leader in building internet communities with a long track record of developing and scaling internet and mobile platforms that impact hundreds of millions of users. Founded in 1999, NetDragon has been a major online game developer in China and has expanded into online education globally. Its overseas education business entity, a U.S.-listed subsidiary named Mynd.ai, is a global leader in interactive technology, with displays and software used in more than 1 million learning and training spaces across 126 countries.

About Zhongke WengAI

Zhongke WengAI, founded in 2017 and incubated by the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, focuses on decision intelligence and has developed DIOS (decision intelligence operating system), the Tianhu X Data AI operating system, the YaYi multilingual large language model, and the Zhichuan X Agent platform. The company is a domestic leader in AI for media communications, security, finance, and government affairs and has served more than 1,000 government and enterprise clients. It has participated in multiple national R&D programs and has been recognized among China’s top AI companies.

About Cherrypicks

Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Hong Kong, Cherrypicks (a NetDragon subsidiary) focuses on technologies spanning smart cities, augmented reality, AI, e-wallets, and smart location services. The company holds a leading position in the Asia-Pacific region, with patented products and multiple international awards. Cherrypicks’ solutions are used across banking, insurance, F&B, retail, property management, travel, and transportation.

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